Re: WOFF and extended metadata

On 26 May 2010, at 23:18, Sylvain Galineau wrote:

>> From: Tal Leming [mailto:tal@typesupply.com]
> 
>> It seems to me that trying to coordinate the associated credit, role
>> and crediturl will be a problem.
> 
> More on this. First, as to why these need to be 'coordinated'.
> As in, you want to convey that these things belong together without
> depending on the generator to write them one after the other, right ?
> Then we could add a group attribute e.g.
> 
> 	<property group="credits" name="credit" value="Font Designer" />
> 	<property group="credits" name="role" value="Lead" />
> 	<property group="credits" name="crediturl" value="http://fontdesigner.example.com" />
> 	<property group="credits" name="credit" value="Another Font Designer" />
> 	<property group="credits" name="role" value="Contributor" />
> 	<property group="credits" name="crediturl" value="http://anotherdesigner.example.org" />
> 	<property group="credits" name="credit" value="Yet Another" />
> 	<property group="credits" name="role" value="Hinting" />
> 
> Thus all these properties are explicitly put in the same bucket name, but without allowing
> arbitrarily deep nesting. (I'd rather have some kind of a use-case to show arbitrarily deep
> nesting is necessary for metadata).

I think this misses the point, in that it does not indicate the associations between credit, role, and crediturl properties.

JK

Received on Wednesday, 26 May 2010 22:24:21 UTC