- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:44:34 -0700
- CC: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
Sylvain Galineau wrote: >> That seems like an adequate speedbump; it has acceptable cross linking >> restriction, installation in desktops is refused for such files, and >> foundries can supply different files for desktop and web licenses. I >> think it must be included in any summaries of the various proposals. > Fine by me. Not fine by me. It is a hack that relies on the fact that systems tend to check font data for corruption before installing in local fonts folders. This is a sensible precaution, but there is nothing anywhere that says systems need to do such checking or exactly what kinds of checks they need to perform. A viable web font format should not rely on a hack that deliberately produces corrupt data that is contrary to the font format spec or on undocumented dependencies in systems. JH
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