- From: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 16:00:05 -0700
- To: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Cc: www-font@w3.org
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:05 PM, John Hudson<tiro@tiro.com> wrote: > EOTC fonts should be completely ignored by all browsers except IE. It should > be obvious that this is actually in the interests of the EOTL format, > because if EOTC fonts are not interoperable with other browsers, this > encourages both font makers and authors to use EOTL instead. If, on the > other hand, non-IE browsers treat EOTC fonts as if they are EOTL, then such > fonts will stick around much longer, just waiting for someone to sue the > browser maker or the W3C for circumventing the rootstring mechanism in EOTC. I agree. If I were an open source and free software advocate, I would have zero interest in having my browser support EOTC. Not supporting EOTC would be a cleaner break and put some pressure on those few web sites using EOTC to move to EOTL. I'm going to comment on the DMCA stuff in another message. Cheers, T
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