- From: Levantovsky, Vladimir <Vladimir.Levantovsky@MonotypeImaging.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:21:20 -0400
- To: "John Hudson" <tiro@tiro.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Thomas Lord" <lord@emf.net>, "Sylvain Galineau" <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, <robert@ocallahan.org>, "John Daggett" <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, "www-font" <www-font@w3.org>
On Thursday, July 30, 2009 7:37 PM John Hudson wrote: > > This presumes, of course, that a browser is able to distinguish in the > wild between an EOT Lite font and and older EOT font. Is this going to > be reliably possible? Strictly speaking, this is not necessary. The EOT-Lite format, as outlined by John Daggett, allows browsers to simply skip all fields of EOT header that are irrelevant for EOT-Lite. > There are existing EOT fonts linked to websites > targeting IE<=8, and what happens when a new EOT Lite conforming > browser > tries to display one of these websites? > It will skip all irrelevant fields, but if TTEMBED_TTCOMPRESSED and TTEMBED_XORENCRYPTDATA flags check out fine - a browser will be able to process existing EOT font as if it was EOT-Lite font. Cheers, Vladimir > JH
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