Re: New work on fonts at W3C

Hi John. I see no reason for you to suppose I was presupposing. I try  
to be very careful in my choice of words. :)

You make a good point.

Cheers,
Christopher


On Jun 16, 2009, at 7:54 PM, John Daggett wrote:

> It seems to me you're presupposing the fences you describe must be in
> the font data itself.  Foundries would have a lot more control over  
> the
> construction of these fences if they control the server hosting the  
> font
> data; all sorts of schemes exist for server-regulated access to  
> content.
> None are failsafe or "secure" but they do cover most of the actual use
> cases for obfuscated font formats, namely the casual user trying to
> download fonts to use in desktop applications.  Typekit is just one
> example of this sort of service.