Re: New work on fonts at W3C

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:26:19 +0200, Robert O'Callahan <
> robert@ocallahan.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure we should have cross-origin restrictions on font loading
>>> though. Mozilla implemented this, but it seems really inconsistent with
>>> similar APIs, e.g. <img> and <script>
>>>
>>
>> If we could have cross-origin restrictions on <img> and <script> without
>> breaking the Web, we would.
>>
>
> My point is that since we do not have cross-origin restrictions for all
> those various other ways to load resources cross-origin (<link>, <script>,
> <img>, <video>, <audio>, <form>, <svg:image>, 'content', 'background-image',
> 'list-style-image', 'cursor', and probably more) it does not make sense to
> impose such a restriction here.
>

I don't think it's valuable to be consistent with a model that is
fundamentally insecure and deprives authors of control over who uses their
resources.

Rob
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