RE: Fonts WG Charter feedback from Sylvain Galineau on 2009-06-30 (www-font@w3.org from April to June 2009)

From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:41:32 +0000
To: "robert@ocallahan.org" <robert@ocallahan.org>
CC: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, "Levantovsky, Vladimir" <Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotypeimaging.com>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>
Message-ID: <045A765940533D4CA4933A4A7E32597E020BD1DB@TK5EX14MBXC111.redmond.corp.microsoft.>

> Maximising user choice means the most unreasonable font vendor dictates what will be implemented. We're not going to play that game.
If this kind of scenario is a real concern then a standard WG seems a better way to go for web authors than keeping the status quo.

Font vendors have the ability to dictate which implementations they'll deal with today. We wouldn't be having these threads otherwise.

Received on Tuesday, 30 June 2009 02:47:32 UTC