- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:22:05 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Paul Nelson (ATC)" <paulnel@winse.microsoft.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Paul Nelson (ATC) wrote: > > If one does not use the name in the font, how does one know that the > font is already installed on the machine? It doesn't matter if the font is already installed. > If the same version of the font is already installed why does one need > to install it again? If the exact same font is installed, then you can determine that (just by comparing the fonts, e.g. by comparing the fingerprints of the relevant files -- this can be done quite quickly and can be heavily cached). The name doesn't particularily help this. > How does the OS address using the font if you don't use the name of the > font and call it something else? That's an API issue / implementation issue, independent of the spec. If the UA really needs a name, it can make one up for internal purposes. > If the font name is trade marked and a person is changing the name are > there legal concerns? No more than for the <img> element. Probably significantly fewer concerns, if we ignore the name altogether... (it's hard to say that you're confusing the meaning of a trademark if you don't use it at all!) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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