- From: Jonathan Kew <jonathan@jfkew.plus.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:53:05 +0100
- To: Ben Weiner <ben@readingtype.org.uk>
- Cc: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
On 6 Aug 2009, at 23:13, Ben Weiner wrote: > What data and/or code do you imagine might be put in the private > data block? Anything the font creator/vendor wishes to attach to the font file. Perhaps a serial number, for example. Note that no browser or other agent will pay any attention to it; this is not a potential DRM mechanism, and the data in that block has no meaning to anyone except its creator. Browsers and similar tools are required to ignore it; they cannot expect to know what it means. In a sense, this does not provide anything more than a vendor can already do with standard OpenType, by putting the same data into a private table within the font (or even inserting it between the tables). It is provided separately in WebOTF because this allows it to be added separately from the main OpenType font build process, which may simplify workflow and testing at least for some vendors. JK
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