- From: Erik van Blokland <erik@letterror.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:07:49 +0200
- To: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
On Jul 15, 2009, at 5:49 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > Any new format, on the other > hand, even if decided on today, will require at least half a decade > before it's truly usable. This is just not true. EOT lite *is* a new format for Opera, Safari, FireFox. Support has to start from scratch. So, 2014 before those apps support it you reckon? A webfont wrapper as proposed (more on that in a seperate post) is not a new format. It is a plain ttf / otf which can be offloaded to the OS for rendering. The unwrapper code is a handful of lines in Python, I'm sure it can be done in a single line of Perl. Supporting EOT and it's light version require a much bigger investment in time and testing. Regardless of what gets decided, there is no reason to resort to imaginary arguments to dismiss things. Erik
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