- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:19:49 -0800
- To: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "Levantovsky, Vladimir" <Vladimir.Levantovsky@MonotypeImaging.com>, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, "public-webfonts-wg@w3.org" <public-webfonts-wg@w3.org>
On Feb 19, 2011, at 8:09 PM, Sylvain Galineau wrote: >> This argument (and Vladimir's similar one) assumes that today's popular >> forms of commercial font licenses are not only the common case today, but >> will be the common case for as long as the Web exists. I don't have >> evidence that this assumption wrong. But what's our level of confidence in >> this assumption? 90%? 99%? I think it would take a high degree of >> confidence to rebut the default assumption of consistency. > > I can't make predictions for 'as long as the Web exists' and I very much > doubt anyone here can. But I'm extremely confident that it's much easier > to relax a restrictive default in the future without harming anyone than > it would be to go the other way. I think once we have a high volume of content making use of this feature, we will not be able to change the default in either direction. We can't change a loose default to a restrictive default, or pages are likely to break. But if we change a restrictive default to a loose default, it will probably introduce security issues. That's why I am treating this as a "for all time" decision and not a "for today" decision. Regards, Maciej
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