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Re: [websec] font sniffing

Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com> Mon, 24 October 2011 16:51 UTC

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From: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Tobias Gondrom <tobias.gondrom@gondrom.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:51:28 -0700
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It's been emphasized that there is no reason why third parties can't register media types if they're wanted. So there should be no barrier to specifying content-type for fonts, if that's what is wanted.

Why is it a "lost cause" when no one even tried?

Larry


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From: websec-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:websec-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Anne van Kesteren
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 4:44 AM
To: Tobias Gondrom
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Subject: Re: [websec] font sniffing

On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:36:50 +0900, Tobias Gondrom <tobias.gondrom@gondrom.org> wrote:
> So a specific use case for this could be helpful - and a volunteer to 
> provide input on by which criteria exactly fonts should be sniffed and 
> help with writing up the font mime-type for the registry (I can help 
> with the latter).

The use case is @font-face, CSS' font linking feature. The criteria I have emailed to this list before:

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/websec/current/msg00235.html


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