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Re: [websec] font sniffing

"Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com> Mon, 24 October 2011 09:09 UTC

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On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:17:12 +0900, Tobias Gondrom  
<tobias.gondrom@gondrom.org> wrote:
> 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?

It is not so much about interest I think. If implementations sniff for  
fonts, it should be defined how they are to go about that.


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Anne van Kesteren
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