- From: Brad Kemper <brkemper@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:46:36 -0700
- To: Paul Nelson (ATC) <paulnel@winse.microsoft.com>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Apr 29, 2008, at 12:05 AM, Paul Nelson (ATC) wrote: > There is nothing stopping web pages from providing a "download font" > button if they don't want to embed the font. In fact, if the font is > free, that might be preferred by some content providers. Authors could do this now, if their intent is to provide a free font that others can use however they want. But that really is not a substitute for the @font-face mechanism, which can be extended to be more bandwidth-friendly.
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