Re: EOT & DMCA concerns

Thomas Lord wrote:

> Poor Dagget might eventually find that Firefox has had an EOTL bug
> for a year or two that results in the accidental rendering of some
> EOTC fonts.  Worse, perhaps resulting in some number of sites "in
> the wild" that rely on this bug.

No, this will not happen.  One the three EOT-Lite validation steps are
performed (magic number, version number, flags), the font will load
and be used in *precisely* the same way a raw TTF/OTF font will load
and be used.

You can view and judge for yourself, here is a prototype implementation of EOT-Lite and ZOT support:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507970

There is no way here for the code to "accidentally" load a non-EOT-Lite font.

P.S. Two g's and two t's please.  The old English spelling of the name
is Doggett, also with two g's and two t's.

Received on Tuesday, 4 August 2009 23:31:44 UTC