- From: Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:12:49 +0100
- To: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
2009/6/23 Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>: > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 17:02 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote: >> 2009/6/23 Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>: >> > >> > You are probably right that no common cases would >> > break. It's a decent "duct tape" hack. I don't >> > think it is good form for a Recommendation, though. >> >> But Håkon/John aren't proposing an idea to turn into a Rec, he's >> proposing an idea for proprietary font developers to make money with >> TTF web fonts without needing a new Rec. > > I thought the idea called for the UA to > fill in the "@" sign before handing the font > off to "the system". I understood that was an untested assumption about how it would work, and one of the Mozilla folks posted the URL of a test page that loads DejaVu renamed to "..." "NO TRESPASSING" and "THIS FONT ONLY FOR USE ON XYZ.com" - where the "..." name is akin to "@"
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