Use of Ahem

There's been a bunch of people recently commenting on having to
install Ahem to run some of the WPT tests locally; this has always
been somewhat contentious but as far as I can recall this was done
because of the long-tail of tests imported from elsewhere that relied
on Ahem being available.

Given the number of people who've taken issue with this (given added
complexity to run the tests), do we want to reconsider this policy and
require fonts that use Ahem to include it as a web font?

Note that this will involve updating ~3773 files to include it as a
web font, so there's a significant cost in changing the long tail of
tests, and I'm thus against changing policy unless someone volunteers
to undertake that work.

/Geoffrey

Received on Friday, 15 September 2017 13:24:32 UTC