Re: Fonts WG Charter feedback

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Håkon Wium Lie<howcome@opera.com> wrote:
> I don't think W3C should create a Font Working Group as per the
> proposed charter:
>
>  http://www.w3.org/2009/03/fonts-wg-charter
>
> By creating a Working Group, W3C signals that webfonts are not yet
> ready for use, and that more technical work is necessary. This is not
> the case.
>
> We have four interoperable implementations of webfonts:

And you have ~30K free fonts that are interoperable with those
implementations (even if most of them are useless), and ~twice that
many retail fonts that are not legally interoperable with those
implementations.

Cheers,

T

Received on Saturday, 27 June 2009 15:38:42 UTC