- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:12:05 +0200
- To: "Levantovsky, Vladimir" <Vladimir.Levantovsky@MonotypeImaging.com>
- Cc: www-font@w3.org
Also sprach Levantovsky, Vladimir:
> One smart man presenting at the ATypI WebFonts panel in 2008 said:
> "It's important to understand who is making the final decision
> about webfonts. It's not me. It's not the people in the panel. It's
> not W3C. And it's not you in the audience. The decision is made by
> the people out there who create web pages and style sheets. If they
> like what they see, webfonts will soon be changing the face of the
> web." Håkon, this smart man was you.
Indeed:
http://people.opera.com/howcome/2008/atypi/
> The successful outcome of Fonts WG work will enable authors do just that.
It's more likely that we will see a format war along the lines of
BlueRay/HD-DVD or EOT/TrueDoc. In these battles, there are no winners,
but many losers.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Monday, 29 June 2009 21:12:58 UTC