Re: [css3-fonts] font descriptor default values from Adam Twardoch on 2009-03-04 (www-style@w3.org from March 2009)

From: Adam Twardoch <list.adam@twardoch.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:28:47 +0100
To: robert@ocallahan.org
CC: Michael Jansson <mjan@em2-solutions.com>, Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>, Michael Day <mikeday@yeslogic.com>, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
Message-ID: <49AF0EAF.7010005@twardoch.com>

Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>     BTW, I just looked at a test page I made and it seems that Safari
>     supports both http:// and file:// URL links to web fonts while Firefox
>     does not support file:// at all.
> 
> 
> That's because we default to a same-origin restriction on font loading.
> A local HTML file should be able to use file: to load a font in the same
> directory (or a descendant of that directory).

Thanks, that's good to know.

A.


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