Re: css3-fonts: should not dictate usage policy with respect to origin

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:25:23 -0400 Message-ID: <4E0CA373.2030409@mit.edu> To: www-style@w3.org · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.1 : Tuesday, 26 March 2013 17:20:41 GMT

On 6/30/11 12:09 PM, Glenn Adams wrote:
> There is no mechanism to allow script content to access font data, even
> by inference

Given that you can draw text into a canvas, this seems to be an 
incorrect claim.

And, importantly, new mechanisms of various sorts are getting added all 
the time.  Preventing unintentional leakage is _hard_.  See 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2008Sep/0112.html for example.

-Boris