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Re: [apps-discuss] font/* (and draft-freed-media-type-regs)

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Mon, 14 November 2011 22:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] font/* (and draft-freed-media-type-regs)
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On 11/15/11 5:44 AM, Ned Freed wrote:
>> On 2011/11/13 5:25, Larry Masinter wrote:
>> > I see no use case for why having font/opentype is any better than
>> application/opentype
>
>> It's just fine if you, and some others, don't see it. Does that mean
>> that you have to fight against it? You haven't shown, even less
>> mentioned, any problem for font/opentype.
>
> Good point. I have no skin in this particular game - aside from slightly
> complicating the media review process I have no personal need for
> font/*. But
> if there's a constituency this type helps, I'm all for it.

I think the ball is now in the court of those who think they might want 
to register font/ -- any volunteers? I will also ping our W3C friends to 
see if someone active there has energy to work on this.

Peter

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