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Tony Hansen <tony@att.com> Sun, 13 November 2011 14:30 UTC

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Certainly not. My argument is that "font" is a bad name because of its 
overloaded connotations -- I'm not arguing *for* any particular 
replacement for it. Any of "fontformat", "fontdl", and others would be 
better than just "font".

     Tony Hansen

On 11/13/2011 5:11 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 2011-11-13 01:57, Tony Hansen wrote:
>> ...
>> *IF* we were to define a top-level media type, I do *not* think it
>> should be named "font", but instead should name it "fontformat" or
>> something like that. I think naming it "font" just leads people to have
>> false expectations.
>> ...
>
> Doesn't this also argue for "imageformat" and "videoformat"?
>
> Best regards, Julian

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