Re: [apps-discuss] font/*

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Wed, 09 November 2011 18:11 UTC

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On 2011-11-09 19:01, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> ...
> The genesis for the current thread, I thought, was the websec WG's work on font-sniffing. "What might I do different" would be "do security checks", I believe. Folks who are more active on websec can answer this better.
> ...

I think we got here because somebody claimed that font types don't have 
registered media types, because, some time ago, the IETF didn't want to 
register the top level type. Which, of course, is a totally separate issue.

Best regards, Julian