Re: CSS3 @font-face / EOT Fonts - new compromise proposal from Philip TAYLOR on 2008-11-15 (www-style@w3.org from November 2008)

From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:33:59 +0000
To: Adam Twardoch <list.adam@twardoch.com>
CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <491F0807.4010301@Rhul.Ac.Uk>

Adam Twardoch wrote:

> An updated version of Tahoma that included the Euro character was posted
> for download by Microsoft at some point. AFAIR, the EULA for the font
> was different from the "web core fonts" and only allowed installation of
> that download on Windows computers (while the web core fonts such as
> Arial, Comic Sans, Trebuchet, Times New Roman, Verdana, Georgia, Courier
> New and Webdings did not restrict this).

Thanks, Adam : an important distinction, and one of
which I was previously unaware.

Philip TAYLOR

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