Re: CSS3 @font-face / EOT Fonts - new compromise proposal

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Gustavo Ferreira <
gustavo.ferreira@hipertipo.net> wrote:

>
>  Op Nov 13, 2008, om 2:58 PM heeft Tab Atkins Jr. het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>
>>  On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>>>>
>>>> No, I mean it quite literally.  Our level of happiness would be strictly
>>>> increased by allowing only free font linking, because right now we have *no*
>>>> font linking.  We would be happy with this.  We would by *happier* with
>>>> commercial fonts as well, but *any* font-linking is an improvement that
>>>> would make our lives better.
>>>>
>>>> If you have no cake, then a bite of cake makes you happy (if you prefer
>>>> relative terms, "happier than before").  A whole slice would be better, but
>>>> that bite is still better than no cake at all.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That still begs the question "who is 'we'" ?
>>> Philip TAYLOR
>>>
>>
>> Web designers.
>>
>> Again, our current situation is no fonts at all.  Unless you can come up
>> with some designers who are actually happier with no font-linking than they
>> would be with only-free-font-linking, I think I'm correct in my usage of the
>> pronoun.  Again (again), I would certainly be *more* happy if commercial
>> fonts were available as well and reasonably easy to use.  But some fonts are
>> better than no fonts, and I don't think it's possible to make a reasonable
>> argument to the contrary.
>>
>
> this is depressing. you don't deserve any cake.
>
> if there are a few good free fonts out there, it's because 'commercial'
> type-designers made them.
>
> i'm out of here!


That's unfortunate, especially since I've tried to make it completely clear
that I'm on board with attempts to put commercial fonts on the web.  I am
merely trying to ensure that we keep a level head about us at all times, and
not be deluded into thinking that commercial fonts on the web is a necessity
worth any cost.

It's also unfortunate that you must denigrate the efforts of free font
authors so much.

~TJ