- From: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:02:10 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, luke whitmore <lwhitmore@gmail.com>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>
On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 18:46 -0500, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > As I noted elsethread, Thomas, rootstrings are functionally identical > to same-origin restrictions. Wow, this is really tripping people up. No, they are not functionally identical. A server might be reasonably configured to refuse certain requests for a font. Systems like CORS allow conforming browsers to streamline and simplify that server's right of refusal. A system of rootstrings forbids a client from performing certain computations with a file that is already in hand, if the client is to be called conforming. This refusal is in spite of the fact that no interop enhancement is thus obtained. Do you not see the difference? -t
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