- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:45:47 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Cc: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
>> Implicit in both this and their old proposal is the assumption that >> this is the *only* web font format, that TTF/OTF fonts are not >> linkable resources. So web authors using either free fonts or fonts >> with a license that permits direct linking would be forced through >> extra hoops for no tangible benefit whatsoever. >> >> Obfuscated/compression schemes are fine but not if it implies that we >> make things harder rather than easier for some users. > > Aren't today's authors 'forced through extra hoops' even if the font > is licensed for direct linking as soon as they want to ensure the same > experience for all their users ? You mean to support IE usage? Sure, but there's not much I can do about that expect hope that Microsoft commits the resources to improve typography on the web and not just in platform-specific products like WPF and Silverlight. EOT may have been supported since the days of Rome in IE but it still lacks support for basic font descriptors (font-weight, font-style) and the ability to use Postscript CFF fonts. To say nothing of the problems with loading Postscript CFF fonts for use with Uniscribe, *sigh*. These aren't hoops but brick walls.
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