- From: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:54:28 -0700
- To: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, luke whitmore <lwhitmore@gmail.com>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>
On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 00:43 +0000, Sylvain Galineau wrote: > >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. > The first sentence is correct. The second does not logically follow. Today, Mozilla may reject a web font that WebKit would not. That is not interoperable even though rootstrings are not involved. That is not an *inter*-op issue. No program in what you describe is confused as to the meaning of any particular bit of data. They diverge only in terms of what they afford users. -t
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