Re: EOT-Lite File Format

Thanks Bill.

Well then, assuming Ascender is representative of other font vendors (any
care to comment?), EOTL needs to ignore the rootstring, it needs to use a
version number that enables rootstring processing in IE<=8, and authors will
need to insert appropriate rootstrings to get them to work as EOT Classic
fonts for IE<=8.

Although I think rootstrings are bad, this seems to be the best of a bad set
of deployment options for authors who need to target IE<=8.

The question for authors then is: how valuable is EOTL, given these
constraints? Would it still be seen as a big win, and get wide use, over the
alternatives? (The main alternative being to standardize something like ZOT
or .webfont and authors either not supporting IE<=8 or deploying EOT Classic
and ZOT/.webfont versions of their fonts.)

Rob
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