On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/9/11 10:30 AM, Adam Barth wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Peter Saint-Andre<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 10/25/11 12:42 AM, Tobias Gondrom wrote: >>>> >>>> On 25/10/11 07:30, "Martin J. Dürst" wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 2011/10/25 11:34, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:43:25 +0900, Martin J. Dürst >>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> But who is at fault is not what we are interested in here I think. >>>>>>>> We >>>>>>>> are interested in defining when implementations have to sniff. They >>>>>>>> very >>>>>>>> much have to sniff for fonts. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Yes. If somebody has enough energy, it would still make sense to >>>>>>> register font types. >>>>>> >>>>>> Because..? >>>>> >>>>> - Font formats, as well as other Mime types, are not only used by Web >>>>> browsers. >>>>> - There may be new formats, for which no sniffing is done yet. >>>>> - Servers may prefer to declare what they are sending out rather than >>>>> to be silent about it, even if not all clients use that information. >>>>> - Once we have registered types, sniffing could in the long term maybe >>>>> even go away. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, Martin. >>>> >>>> +1 for that. >>> >>> Based on discussion here and at the W3C TPAC last week, I raised this >>> issue >>> on the apps-discuss list: >>> >>> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg03447.html >>> >>> The immediate reaction was: "do you mean fonts or typefaces?" >>> >>> Before taking on this work, it would be helpful to understand exactly >>> what >>> typographic entities are being sent around by browsers and other >>> applications. >> >> Mechanically, resource representations that might get shoved into >> @font-face rules. > > Based on Anne's previous message to this list [1], it seems that we're > actually talking about font representation formats (his examples are > TrueType Collection, OpenType, TrueType, and Web Open Font Format) instead > of particular fonts (e.g., "12pt Georgia Bold Italic") or typefaces (e.g., > "Georgia"). > > Correct?
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