On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Sairus Patel <sppatel@adobe.com> wrote:
> Actually, 'font-family' seems to fit the intent of “external references”
> in the document SVG Integration (
> https://svgwg.org/specs/integration/#definitions), though not explicitly
> mentioned in the list of examples.
>
> Whether the external font file is “link[ed] to" with an explicit data
> URI or an OS font family name (or one of the generic family names e.g.
> serif, for that matter) shouldn’t make a difference, right? It’s still an
> external blob that’s “render[ed] or process[ed] in the context of the
> current file [the SVG doc of the SVG-in-OT font],” and should thus be
> verboten (quotes are from the above link).
>
I don't think font-family is or should be considered an external reference.
That would mean 'font-family:Arial' would be unusable in an SVG image,
which would be bad.
Rob
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