RE: I expect all foundries to start offering web font licenses within 6 months. from Sylvain Galineau on 2009-07-20 (www-font@w3.org from July to September 2009)

From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:26:48 +0000
To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, "rfink@readableweb.com" <rfink@readableweb.com>
CC: 'Dave Crossland' <dave@lab6.com>, 'Thomas Phinney' <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>, 'www-font' <www-font@w3.org>
Message-ID: <045A765940533D4CA4933A4A7E32597E020CED65@TK5EX14MBXC120.redmond.corp.microsoft.>

>Using WEFT, authors had to scan their HTML pages to create EOT files.
>This was highly inconvenient and proably the major reason why nobody
>used it. You're saying that the solutions in development will be even
>more inconvenient?

This is, to my knowledge, untrue. You would do that if you wanted to generate an EOT file that was subsetted for
a static page. There is no need to do this if all you want to do is set up a font file for your whole site.

Received on Monday, 20 July 2009 00:27:56 UTC