RE: EOT-Lite File Format

On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 23:55 -0400, Levantovsky, Vladimir wrote:
> On Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:43 PM Thomas Lord wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 20:15 -0700, Thomas Phinney wrote:
> > > I should point out that it was my suggestion that a browser could
> > > simply reject rendering of a font that had root strings. My reason
> > for
> > > suggesting that was Hakon's concern that a browser that simply
> > ignored
> > > the root string could open itself up to DMCA action or some such.
> > 
> > That alone is justification for taking EOT-lite off
> > the table, if what you say sticks.  That is why I ask
> > for a positive assertion that UAs should render even in
> > the face of a mis-matched non-nil rootstring.
> > 
> 
> As I understand what the current draft says
> (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-font/2009JulSep/0780.html), the
> EOT-Lite conforming UA will render a font if it's capable to do so,
> regardless of the presence of rootstring (i.e. completely ignoring the
> root strings, whether mismatched or not).

That will relieve my concerns in this area.
Can I get an "amen" from Ascender and MSFT?


>  Other means, such as
> same-origin restrictions and CORS will be in place to prevent
> hot-linking, etc.

Damn straight.  Amen, brother.

-t



> Regards,
> Vladimir
> 
> > -t
> > 
> > 
> 

Received on Friday, 31 July 2009 04:51:32 UTC