- From: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:14:09 -0700
- To: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>
On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 23:56 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote: > Thomas Lord [mailto:lord@emf.net] wrote: > >> 1. Purposely breaking interop with desktop OSes (EOT, any obfuscation > >> proposal, most compression proposals). > > > >That is reason enough for W3C TAG to object to any > >such proposal, in my opinion. > > Not sure why that would be the case. If it enables more fonts to be licensed for web use, then why would they object? Because "more fonts" in your sense is a transient concern and in this case it comes at high expense to users. It is the opposite of what a reputable standards party should do. -t
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