- From: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:27:28 +0000
- To: Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Dave Crossland wrote: >2009/6/23 Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>: >> Dave Crossland wrote: >>>It becomes DRM when you say, "UAs are expected to honor those [restrictions]" >> >> If a web font says "I'm only licensed to be used on myorg.com", it's DRM if UAs don't render it on other domains too? > >Yes; please read the essays on noeot.com - >http://noeot.com/shoulda-woulda-coulda.html specifically. Umm, that doesn't make much sense. MUST NOT vs Will Fail to Interoperate if you do seems like hairsplitting - or an attempt to ignore the spec altogether and render everything. Not sure I see it. >> My mom doesn't want to see the license for Comic Sans > >But when, for example, she clicks "File, Save as..." she might benefit >from an info dialog box popping up to say "The files that make up this >page are subject to copyright restrictions. Click here to learn more" >which would open a browser window explaining what licenses go with >which files. Yeah, except you can't go back and place restrictions on File Save As dialogs either. >> nor would she know what to do with it. > >Creative Commons and >http://river-valley.tv/ingimp-a-smorgasbord-of-usability-adaptive-uis-and-visually-arresting-graphic-design-for-2009/ >show that licensing information can be made readable and meaningfully >useful for people like your Mum. I'm not saying she wouldn't know what to do with it if she was looking for a font to use; I'm saying showing that information to her is irrelevant. Getting it to web developers is much more important; but unfortunately, there's no "web developer mode" in browsers (e.g. where the file save as dialog has license information pop up). -Chris
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