- From: Hakon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:47:24 +0200
- To: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Also sprach Laurens Holst:
> > To make sure we're not upsetting anyone, only level 4 fonts should be
> > accepted by UAs. Also, even if level 4 fonts are "installable", the UA
> > should not install them for other applications to use -- the font should
> > be treated like a cached resource.
>
> Would that not cause the opposite effect? Because browsers would only
> accept fonts with an $,1rx(Binstallable$,1ry(B setting, font vendors might not be
> willing to set such a high level for a publicly available font even
> though it$,1ry(Bs only used on the client$,1ry(Bs own website (which would really be
> level 3, while level 4 would be the equivalent to explicitly offering it
> for download to any user). Or at the least would they not charge
> extraordinary amounts for it? Seems to me like this could actually
> hinder commercial adoption of the functionality.
>
> I$,1ry(Bd say at the least accept level 3.
Perhaps you are right. I'd like to hear it from the commercial font
vendors, though...
-h&kon
H,Ae(Bkon Wium Lie CTO ,A0~(Be,A.*(B
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Wednesday, 26 April 2006 07:56:03 UTC