- From: Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:44:27 +0100
- To: "Felix Miata" <mrmazda@ij.net>
- Cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On 19/04/2008, Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> wrote: > On 2008/04/19 11:52 (GMT+0100) Dave Crossland apparently typed: > > If I install Ascender's "Liberation Sans," but a website modifies it > > and references it with @font-face also as "Liberation Sans," I will > > want to see the modified version in the page. > > Why? I wouldn't. I would because I want to see the page as the designer intended. The same situation arises if a website accidentally choses a name used by a totally different font that happens to already be installed. > He should rename it if he's going to "modify" it. That would be polite, yes (and the "Open Font License" requires renaming derived versions before distributing them :-) but if he may be rude, and as a UA user I basically don't care about that until I want to install the font. > It he wants a permanent modification to it, he should submit his > proposed change to Ascender, or to RedHat's Bugzilla. What if he doesn't want to make a permanent modification for everyone, but something relatively unique to his site? Or they rejected his change because they thought it was ugly? -- Regards, Dave
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