RE: WOFF and extended metadata from Sylvain Galineau on 2010-05-22 (public-webfonts-wg@w3.org from May 2010)

From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 03:32:22 +0000
To: David Berlow <dberlow@fontbureau.com>
CC: "public-webfonts-wg@w3.org" <public-webfonts-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <045A765940533D4CA4933A4A7E32597E2148FF48@TK5EX14MBXC120.redmond.corp.microsoft.>

> From: David Berlow [mailto:dberlow@fontbureau.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 7:20 AM


> By "this proposal", do you mean the proposal for the existence of the
> Extended MetaData Block? or the requirement to parse the EMDB at the
> user's request?

The latter. I'm perfectly fine with having metadata. I think everyone is.
But rejecting the font when something is wrong with it seems unreasonable.
Real-world experience with other formats also indicates this will not work 
in practice.

Received on Saturday, 22 May 2010 03:32:59 UTC