- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:13:16 -0500
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > Well, there's two things here. The first is the simple question of why > fonts *require* Access Control, when every other resource on the web > gets along fine without it. They don't, though. Thy get along limpingly, and at the cost of serious restrictions on what you can do with them and a lot of development cost to browser developers. See the discussion about Access Control in the context of <video> starting at http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/2008-November/001930.html (it's a longish thread, but http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/2008-November/001958.html kinda summarizes Mozilla's position on the matter). -Boris
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