- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 22:09:13 +0200
- To: "Chris Lilley" <chris@w3.org>, www-style@w3.org
On Tue, 12 May 2009 16:07:59 +0200, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote: > Some fonts are licensed to a specific site or domain. EOT provides one > way to indicate this in the font itself. Cross Origin Resource Sharing > (CORS, previously known as Access Control) is a W3C specification which > may also be used to indicate this [7]. Mozilla Firefox restricts > downloadable OpenType fonts to those permitted by CORS. > There may be other ways to indicate metadata, so that foundries and font > licensees may indicate the nature of their agreement. > > [7] http://www.w3.org/TR/access-control/ Just to be clear: CORS is not about license enforcement. It is about alleviating the same-origin policy in certain scenarios. (Whether the same-origin policy should apply for fonts at all is something I'm not sure about.) -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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