- From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:43:37 +0000
- To: Tal Leming <tal@typesupply.com>
- CC: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
> From: Tal Leming [mailto:tal@typesupply.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:35 AM <snip> > To be clear, I am not endorsing CWT and I am not speaking as a co- > author of the WOFF specification. I am speaking as someone who works > with a number of foundries to produce fonts and as someone who > actually experimented with EOTL. Font makers already have enough > undefined expectations and bugs to guess about and work around. I > quite strongly do not want to have more of these. It's bad for > everyone involved -- the OS/app makers, the font makers and, most > importantly, the users. Yes, a formal CWT spec must define what a font generator (font vendor, tool) must do in order to generate a font file that will work in IE and any browser that implements the spec.
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