- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:40:12 +0200
- To: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
- Cc: (wrong string) åkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, "Levantovsky, Vladimir" <Vladimir.Levantovsky@MonotypeImaging.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, www-font@w3.org
Also sprach Thomas Lord:
> How long do you expect the web to be around?
At least 500 years. That's roughly how long the previous communication
revolution has lasted: the printed book.
> Are those delays really that big?
A decade of work is insignificant if we believe that the end result
will be better for all. In the case of fonts, based on the current
charter proposal, I don't think the end result will be better. And the
risk of it being worse is significant; browsers might be turned into a
font police, responsible for displaying or enforcing licenses. Also,
It will send the "wait-we're-not-ready-yet" message which is
disruptive to contemporary implemetations.
> If you maintain your attitude, maybe you should
> just walk away from W3C entirely. All standards
> are pointless in the sense that you describe.
Not at all. But before starting a new heroic endeavour, it makes sense
to look around to see if we already have a solution. In the case of
fonts, I think we do. The best specification is the one we don't have
to write.
This doesn't mean that your ideas of having a generic wrapper format
is bad. But I wouldn't apply it to fonts first.
Cheers,
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Tuesday, 30 June 2009 00:41:19 UTC