- From: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
- Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:13:11 -0700
- To: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Tal Leming <tal@typesupply.com>, Erik van Blokland <erik@letterror.com>, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 14:57 -0700, John Daggett wrote: > > 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. There is emerging precedent within W3C and implementation practice for something very close to "warn on load". See section 7.3 of this: http://www.w3.org/Submission/2008/SUBM-ccREL-20080501/ That's the ccREL submission from the folks at Creative Commons. I don't think that browsers should be checking rootstrings and guessing as to their legal interpretation: browsers should just make it easy for users to know that there is meta-data attached and to view that meta-data. That's why my "wrapper" proposal suggests a two-part MIME file with one part being a binary font file, the other being an HTML "about" document. Such an "about" document can use RDFa: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/ -t
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