- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 21:18:48 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Cc: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>
Received on Wednesday, 1 July 2009 21:19:26 UTC
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Håkon Wium Lie wrote: > Also sprach Sylvain Galineau: > > > > - the new font encoding is just that: a thin > > > wrapper/obfuscation/compression layer on top of the current TT/OT > > > format; there should be no new data for browsers to deal with > > > So you're comfortable with Ascender's proposal(s) ? > > Given commitment from MS to do TT/OT, I can live with this proposal: > > http://blog.fontembedding.com/post/2009/06/10/New-Web-Fonts-Proposal.aspx Wouldn't operating systems just build support in for these fonts, making the entire exercise pointless? I mean, I assume FreeType would support these fonts natively almost immediately, and I see no reason to suspect that Apple wouldn't add support for this new format to Mac OS X too, since it would aid developers significantly if they could see these fonts in other applications once they've acquired them. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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