- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 15:03:12 +0200
- To: www-font@w3.org
On Wednesday 08 July 2009, karsten luecke wrote: > Christopher Fynn wrote: > > Users want fonts that work seamlessly [...] > > Erik van Blokland and John Hudson have given good answers. > TTF/OTF fonts per se (possible permission tables or embedding bits > aside) ideally would work in all kinds of environments. I have the secret ambition (no longer secret now :-) ) to do such a good job on the structure and extensibility of the new font format's metadata, that the format works equally well over all protocols and all transports: FTP, e-mail, news, bittorrent, bluetooth, etc. And that includes "no protocol," i.e., local files. Behind that is another hope: if it works for protocols from the past, there is a good chance it'll work with protocols in the future. (I hope that HTTP-bis[1] will extend the life of HTTP by many years, but I don't want to rely on that.) There is no shortage of competition for the metadata, though: The PLING (W3C's Policy Language INterest Group) has so far collected about two dozen different technologies[2] that all try to encode metadata for usage policies in some way, and that doesn't yet include EOT[3], OTW[4]/TTW[5], MAME[6] or EEULAA[7]. [1] http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/httpbis-charter.html [2] http://www.w3.org/Policy/pling/wiki/PolicyLangReview [3] http://www.w3.org/Submission/EOT/ [4] http://blog.fontembedding.com/post/2009/06/10/New-Web-Fonts-Proposal.aspx [5] http://www.w3.org/Fonts/Misc/minutes-2008-10#Compromise [6] http://noeot.com/mame.html [7] http://www.eeulaa.org/ Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos W3C/ERCIM bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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