Re: New work on fonts at W3C

On Jun 25, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Levantovsky, Vladimir wrote:

>> Referer-based methods are unreliable, and can block users of your own
>> site as well as letting through users of other sites.  Some software
>> will strip referer headers, or even change them.  (For instance,  
>> IIRC,
>> no browser sends Referer headers from an HTTPS site to an HTTP site.)
>> Depending on referer checking isn't a good idea.
>
> Thank you. I am not a web developer so I would trust the experts on  
> this.
> My point was that font vendors have so far proven to be reasonable  
> people willing to cooperate, which is contrary to Rob's presumption  
> that we would insist on a particular way of doing things (i.e. root  
> strings).

So you would allow your fonts to be served in their raw format if  
referrer based blocking was used? It could provide a large amount of  
license violation, even if it wasn't perfect.