Re: [css3-fonts] wording of font fetching algorithm

Anne van Kesteren wrote:

>> We've had a *lot* of discussion of this section, the fact that
>> fonts are basically same-origin restricted with CORS to relax is
>> simply a way of emphasizing what the definition of "potentially
>> CORS-enabled fetch method" with "Anonymous" mode implies. 
>> Superfluous, maybe, but I don't see why you would label this as
>> "wrong".  I think it's important to keep the wording explicit here,
>> given all the back-and-forth about this.
> 
> I'm saying it's confusing. Having it discussed a lot does not make
> the wording any clearer. And the wording is vastly different from
> anywhere else in the platform where we do something similar, e.g.
> with <track> elements. Nowhere do we make it this difficult to read
> that all that is required is that fonts are fetched using CORS.

I've revised this section along the lines you suggested:

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-fonts/#font-fetching-requirements

There's now a small piece of normative text along with a note to
explain the implications of the normative text to authors and some
examples.  The examples have been revised based on the implications of
using the potentially CORS-enabled fetch method as defined in HTML5.

Do these changes resolve your concern?

Regards,

John Daggett