- From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:32:52 +0000
- To: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
> From: www-font-request@w3.org [mailto:www-font-request@w3.org] On > Behalf Of John Daggett > This issue of a new font format is *entirely* a licensing issue. My > point was simply that EOT-Lite potentially affects the choice of fonts > available in non-IE browsers, since those font vendors who require > same-origin checking in *all* cases would not be able to license their > fonts for web use (or would need to require things like referrer > checking) because of this structural limitation. Creating two font > files, a legacy EOT and a new format .webfont/ZOT, is a pain but > it does not have this limitation. If we thought roostrings were too much of a burden for authors and web sites, requiring them to handle both rootstrings and a second format should be quite unattractive for many. Any authors I haven't scared away yet willing to chime in ? :) (Tab...I know you're out there...)
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