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Re: [websec] font sniffing

"Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com> Tue, 25 October 2011 02:35 UTC

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On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:43:25 +0900, Martin J. Dürst  
<duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:
>> But who is at fault is not what we are interested in here I think. We
>> are interested in defining when implementations have to sniff. They very
>> much have to sniff for fonts.
>
> Yes. If somebody has enough energy, it would still make sense to  
> register font types.

Because..?


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