On Apr 9, 8:50 pm, fantasai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > they'd be fine with another format that solves the same problems.
"Any DRM as long as its DRM"? :-( Perhaps eventually all browser developers will implement @font-face for DRM font formats and non-DRM font formats. But I'm deeply concerned that in this core aspect of the web, we'll only get a DRM format, and this will limit the potential for web typography in the long term. What if I go on raise funding to hire someone to support SIL Graphite fonts in Gecko, say for the OLPC project, because I want to see kids educated in languages unsupported by OpenType? At a non-latin typography conference in London last year, an Adobe employee acknowledged that OpenType will never support some languages because the developers with proprietary software business models can't make enough money for shareholders out of those regions of the world's people. SIL is already meeting the otherwise ignored needs of many people for digital typography. I find the doom-and-gloom speculation here, that implementing non-DRM font formats is a high legal risk for Mozilla, very sad. > But they are very interested in having a *cross-platform* > embeddable font format that is supported by all browsers, and they're > unwilling to implement raw TTF themselves linking due to legal concerns. Networked computers are inescapably "infringement engines." If people had stopped and thought about the legal concerns of personal computers, they'd never have built them. Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ dev-tech-layout mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-layout
