- From: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:02:04 -0400
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Cc: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Håkon Wium Lie<howcome@opera.com> wrote: > Also sprach Thomas Phinney: > > > > I'm not comfortable having root strings, even if the specification > > > says they can be ignored. For one, we could see heavy lobbying to > > > remove the "can be ignored" part in the next version of the > > > specification. Second, some judge somewhere could rule that his laws > > > (DMCA perhaps) trumps any specification and that implementations > > > therefore must "honor" root strings. > > > > Don't enforce the root string, just refuse to render a font with a > > root string at all. Anywhere. > > That would take care of the legal problem. But unless all browsers > agree on this, interoperability suffers. > > A better solution, I believe, is to remove root strings from the spec. Certainly. I was assuming that was part of what would happen in this scenario. Cheers, T -- "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." - Sir Winston Churchill
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