RE: Minutes, 16 February 2011 WebFonts WG telcon

[Maciej Stachowiak:]
> 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.

Sorry, I don't understand this. The default behavior currently implemented
by IE and Firefox is stricter, not looser. It was also agreed that in no
way did this mechanism represent a security measure as an attacker is 
perfectly able to set the HTTP header required for the font to be delivered.

So what are we talking about ?

Received on Sunday, 20 February 2011 17:11:57 UTC