- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:56:21 -0500
- To: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Cc: www-font@w3.org
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Bert Bos<bert@w3.org> wrote: > On Monday 06 July 2009, Dave Crossland wrote: > >> CORS has a precedent in Firefox, and no one objects to it. > > It's a side discussion, but just to correct that statement: I *do* > object to a dependency on HTTP. > > The slashes[*] inside an HTTP URL help to abbreviate URLs, but imply > nothing about who owns the resource. (Akamai would own half the world's > most popular files, it it were otherwise; and the Internet Archive > would own the rest.) Additionally, not all URLs are HTTP URLs: think of > e-mail message identifiers, p2p protocols, ISBN numbers, data URLs, > etc. > > If it is important to know that font A is licensed for use with document > B, then that information should stay with the font, no matter where the > font is copied to: another server, a local hard disk, a CD, a zip file, > the Internet Archive, Akamai's network, Gnutella, etc. Formats like > EOT[3], Thomas Lord's multipart files[2], or OpenType with > modified/extra tables[4,5] make that possible. CORS[1] doesn't (and > wasn't designed to do so). > > > [*] Tim Berners-Lee has said[7] that the mistake he made in HTTP URLs is > the double slash. Its existence limits the content provider and > confuses the content consumer. E.g., the EOT URL[3] should have been > http:/org/w3/www/Submission/EOT/. How much is handled by a DNS server > and how much by an HTTP server is up to the content provider, no need > for the client to know that. > > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/ > [2] http://noeot.com/mame.html > [3] http://www.w3.org/Submission/EOT/ > [4] http://www.w3.org/Fonts/Misc/minutes-2008-10#Compromise > [5] > http://blog.fontembedding.com/post/2009/06/10/New-Web-Fonts-Proposal.aspx > [7] http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.3337 While I agree, are you trying to suggest that people think that CORS/same-origin restrictions carry ownership information with them in any way? ~TJ
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