- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:25:25 +0100
- To: Erik van Blokland <erik@letterror.com>
- CC: "Levantovsky, Vladimir" <Vladimir.Levantovsky@MonotypeImaging.com>, "public-webfonts-wg@w3.org" <public-webfonts-wg@w3.org>
On Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 4:09:31 PM, Erik wrote: EvB> An author who wants to host a licensed font then has to fiddle EvB> with the server to include the From-Origin header in responses to requests to the font. Right? Yes. EvB> To get an idea of the complexity of this proposal: is including EvB> the header a matter of, for instance, fiddling with a http.conf, EvB> or does it require server application updates? http.conf, or a per-directory .htaccess file. EvB> It was mentioned to include this in future default settings of EvB> Apache distributions. In general, how difficult is it to get settings added to Apache? Its possible. It helps if the specification that is prompting the update s stabe and widely implemented. EvB> Similarly access to the raw data (e.g. from an image or font) remains prohibited. EvB> I'm not sure what Van Kesteren means - access by whom? I'm not sure on that one either. -- Chris Lilley Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups
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