Re: [websec] font sniffing - Re: Are all the issues filed? (was: Re: Using IETF Tracker for issues on MIME sniffing?)

[Adam Barth <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Tobias Gondrom
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> On 24/10/11 01:04, Larry Masinter wrote:
>
> I'd meant to do more careful write-ups of the issues I put into the tracker,
> but I've put in the main issues left over from draft-masinter-mime-sniff.
>
> The document also contains several sections (on sniffing fonts, for example)
> which are left as TBD. I suppose each of those is a separate "issue" to fill
> out.
>
> Larry
>
>
> Thank you Larry.
>
> I have a question regarding font sniffing:
> Besides the short discussion at the last meetings, I do not recall much
> interest for that on the mailing-list. So, I am not sure how much interests
> really exists for the working group to be addressing that?
> (i.e. adding content-types for fonts and adding them to the mime-sniff
> draft...)
> Am I mistaken?

I added to the TODOs to the spec at the request of Anne van Kesteren.
I have some notes about how how font sniffing is supposed to work, but
I haven't researched it thoroughly.  I don't recall anyone else asking
for it specifically.

Adam