- From: Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:42:41 +0000
- To: "Thomas Phinney" <tphinney@adobe.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
2008/11/13 Thomas Phinney <tphinney@adobe.com>: >> >> You cannot have it both ways: either the same font file can be used >> both >> as a system font and web font or it cannot be used at all (in browser >> or >> in the system). > > Nonsense. Unless by "the" system you mean only free OSes. I agree with Thomas; "system fonts" are those supported by all 3 major OS font-loading systems (Windows, MacOS, GNU/Linux). Just one doesn't count. >> That is, unless you decide that you're not interested >> in >> free software (operating systems or browsers) users. In that case, I >> wouldn't count on broad implementation. > > Or perhaps the font makers aren't *worried* about free > software OSes. They just want to be sure that the web > fonts won't work natively in Mac OS or Windows. I take it that Microsoft and Apple will not add gzip to their OS font-loading systems, so gzip accomplishes this aspect fine. The real question here is not about the compression/obfuscation - as long as its not patent encumbered and not hard to code an independent implementation - but about requiring browsers to enforce root strings on users, trampling their fair use rights. Cheers, Dave
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