Re: [apps-discuss] Content Types for Fonts?

Relevant here:
	http://www.w3.org/TR/WOFF/#appendix-b

Regards,
--
Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>  (@roessler)


On 24 Mar 2011, at 20:55, Tobias Gondrom wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> maybe someone here can give some help/advice on this.
> At websec we have a draft on Mime type sniffing algorithms to improve on
> consistency of browser algorithms for mime type determination (and by
> thus improve security):
> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-websec-mime-sniff-02.txt
> 
> Recently a comment came up with regard to identifying fonts (e.g.
> referenced in style sheets).
> AFAIK fonts don't have registered mime/content types, so browsers
> already just use sniffing algorithms for them.
> And without them having a registered content/mime type, it's kind of a
> flawed logic to add this to the draft for mime sniffing.
> 
> On the other hand it might make sense to add content types for fonts to
> the IANA registry?
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html
> 
> Has that ever come up? Or are they already registered and I missed them?
> Or is this a bad idea?
> 
> Any opinions welcome...
> 
> BR, Tobias
> (websec chair)
> 
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