- From: Levantovsky, Vladimir <Vladimir.Levantovsky@MonotypeImaging.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:01:39 -0400
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
- CC: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>
On Tuesday, May 04, 2010 2:26 AM Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > On Tue, 04 May 2010 15:12:49 +0900, Robert O'Callahan > <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote: > > Yes, there was a big kerfuffle over video. A few reasons why video is > > probably different from fonts: > > a) video is huge, so much more likely to need CDN support or at least > to > > be placed on dedicated servers. Fonts are much smaller so it's > generally > > going to be easy to serve a font on the same server as the rest of > the > > normal page content. > > I just checked cnn.com and it seems to be using CDN for style sheets. > If > it is using them for style sheets it seems likely it would use them for > fonts too, as they are typically larger than style sheets. > Can you please elaborate a bit more on this whole issue? It seems that CDN should be completely transparent for UA, and that content and resources such as CSS and fonts would appear to a browser as coming from the same origin it was requested, regardless of whether CDN is used or not. So, if content is in fact comes from CDN - how does it affect same-origin restriction? Thank you, Vlad
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