RE: Minutes, 16 February 2011 WebFonts WG telcon from Sylvain Galineau on 2011-02-18 (public-webfonts-wg@w3.org from February 2011)

From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:25:16 +0000
To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
CC: "public-webfonts-wg@w3.org" <public-webfonts-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <045A765940533D4CA4933A4A7E32597E2AB61E26@TK5EX14MBXC120.redmond.corp.microsoft.>

> It seems cleaner to treat all URLs the same way.

Cleaner for whom ? People who make browsers ? Sure. It'd be nice if we could just deal with raw TTFs and load them from everywhere. But we've already been there and agreed to come up with a solution that maximizes author choice. Now that we have a format that font vendors are happy with, cleaner doesn't seem as important as defaulting to the solution that is easiest for authors to deal with.

I prefer the solution that is cleaner for authors and maximizes their choice. If it takes a little bit more work for browser vendor to implement the smart default then so be it. The cleanliness of our code is our problem, not theirs.

Received on Friday, 18 February 2011 21:25:51 UTC