Re: [apps-discuss] font/*

Dave CROCKER <dhc@dcrocker.net> Mon, 07 November 2011 22:58 UTC

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On 11/7/2011 2:49 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> In talking with folks at the W3C meeting last week, I heard yet again of
> interest in defining a Content Type for fonts. Would anyone active in
> the IETF Applications Area want to work on such a spec? And do folks
> here think a new top-level content type is needed for fonts?


sure.  i don't know much about the details of font specification but am assuming 
the task here is one of packaging existing conventions rather than creating new 
ones.

d/

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