RE: Including WOFF in ACID3

On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Levantovsky, Vladimir wrote:
>
> I don't see how implementing what Sylvain has proposed would affect the 
> features of the test. If the goal of ACID3 is to test @font-face 
> functionality, then using TTF data format (that is optional to be 
> supported by the browsers) cannot be considered a valid test - browsers 
> may fail just because they do not support this *optional* format even 
> though they are fully compliant with the CSS spec.

The goal of the test is to test TTF functionality as well.

TTF is a standard format, just like WOFF may one day be.

Note that @font-face is just as optional as TTF or WOFF support, or, 
indeed, CSS support, or HTML support. Browser vendors pick what they want 
to implement. No technology can be mandated; it's a free market. All we 
can do is check that once you try to support a technology, you actually do 
so in a manner that is consistent with that technology's specification. 
You cannot mandate that WOFF be implemented. The market decides that.

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