- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:45:23 -0700
- To: Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>
- CC: W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>, 3668 FONT <public-webfonts-wg@w3.org>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>
Glenn, This serves as a response both to today's messages to the CSS list and also your recent comments to the W3C Font list regarding same origin related text in the WOFF spec. I wonder if you have had an opportunity to look at Anne van Kesteren's proposal for a generic 'From-Origin' header, which would provide a standard mechanism for authors to set same origin restrictions or permissions for all resource types and, hence, would remove the need for @font-face specific SOR.* See http://annevankesteren.nl/2011/02/from-origin Would such a mechanism be satisfactory to you? JH *The background of SOR in @font-face and WOFF is a desire to make it easy and reliable for webfont licensees to conform to license terms that require same origin restriction. There is support for Anne's From-Origin mechanism in the W3C Webfonts WG, which is why the current SOR text in the WOFF spec is marked as being 'at risk'. The WG voted not to remove the current text, though, until a viable alternative mechanism is available, recognising that a lot of support for WOFF from the commercial font foundries is dependent on the modicum of IP security provided by the format as currently specified.
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