- From: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:58:27 -0700
- To: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Cc: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>, "Levantovsky, Vladimir" <Vladimir.Levantovsky@MonotypeImaging.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "robert@ocallahan.org" <robert@ocallahan.org>, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 02:43 +0000, Sylvain Galineau wrote: > >From: John Hudson [mailto:tiro@tiro.com] > > > > > >But that implies that it may treat an EOT font as if it were EOTL, if > >TTEMBED_TTCOMPRESSED and TTEMBED_XORENCRYPTDATA flags check out, and > >that seems to me problematic if it means that a non-nil rootstring with > >meaningful content relative to that EOT font -- and perhaps to the > >license for that EOT font -- is ignored. The whole point of the EOTL > >format is to make a new format that is not burdened by rootstrings, not > >to treat all existing old-format EOT fonts with rootstrings as if they > >were EOTL. > > > > Rootstrings are used to restrict the use of the font to the current origin. > Which is what Firefox already does by default. Two wrongs don't make a right. -t
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