- From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:42:05 +0000
- To: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
- CC: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "robert@ocallahan.org" <robert@ocallahan.org>, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
>From: Thomas Lord [mailto:lord@emf.net] > >On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 00:13 +0000, Sylvain Galineau wrote: > >> I did too. But if a license does require same-origin checks then it >was assumed >> a customer might want to use the rootstring to do that for the IE >installed base. > >Absolute clarity on that matter would be helpful. >I regard "same-origin" (more likely: "CORS") checks >as a term of art in which rootstrings in font files >play no role. If people are using the term more loosely >then that will cause problems down the road. > That's not the question here. The issue is that the IE installed base we're trying to be compatible with will not apply any origin restrictions beyond those embedded in the file. So if the EULA does require origin restrictions, things get harder. Given that the only feature on hand for the IE installed base is one we all deemed too complicated for many real-world scenarios.
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