Re: .webfont Proposal from John Daggett on 2009-07-08 (www-font@w3.org from July to September 2009)

From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 14:57:13 -0700 (PDT)
To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Cc: Tal Leming <tal@typesupply.com>, Erik van Blokland <erik@letterror.com>, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
Message-ID: <30932693.206031247090233485.JavaMail.root@cm-mail02.mozilla.org>

> Note, though, that the proposal says that mismatches still allow the
> font to be used, but suggest that UAs may offer an unobtrusive alert
> about the mismatch.

Ah, so this is root strings with "warn on load" rather than "refuse
display on load".  No quite sure the user is the one who needs warning. 
The maintenance headaches and need for web infrastructure changes are
still there.

Received on Wednesday, 8 July 2009 21:57:53 UTC