- From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 03:28:08 +0000
- To: "robert@ocallahan.org" <robert@ocallahan.org>, Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
- CC: "Levantovsky, Vladimir" <Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotypeimaging.com>, "John Daggett" <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, Christopher Slye <cslye@adobe.com>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>, "public-webfonts-wg@w3.org" <public-webfonts-wg@w3.org>
>From: public-webfonts-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-webfonts-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Robert O'Callahan >>On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Adam Langley <agl@google.com> wrote: >>>On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote: >>> Lobby UAs to do that. For open-source UAs, contribute patches to do that. >>> That's really all you can do. Trying to legislate it through spec text is >>> going to be painful, clumsy and ineffective. >>If it helps settle the question then I can state that Chrome, for one, >>will never try to drag an XML parser into the font rendering pipeline >>just to validate metadata; irrespective of the spec. >>Nor will we accept patches to do so. >Nor would we in Firefox. >We might, however, accept patches to expose font metadata through scriptable APIs, and patches to display that data in tools like Firebug or even the Page Info feature >in Firefox. >Rob In case that was unclear, I am extremely uncomfortable with implementing such a requirement in IE as well. As of today, I would recommend we deviate from the spec if it required licensing data to parsed and validated even when the user does not ask for it.
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