- From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:31:50 +0000
- To: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>
> From: www-font-request@w3.org [mailto:www-font-request@w3.org] On > Behalf Of John Hudson > 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. John, I was fine with Dave's last statement i.e. that this suggestion be counted as one of the outstanding proposals. No more.
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