On 4/9/2008 4:32 PM, Dave wrote: > On Apr 9, 10:57 pm, Jonas Sicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> One way to put it is this: Are you sure enough about this that you'd >> offer to pay the legal costs if mozilla got sued? I know I certainly >> wouldn't, no matter if I think the suit would have any basis or not. > > Is Mozilla committed to core web standards like CSS3? > > If it is, and I hope it is, then it has to implement the @font-face > feature. > > If Mozilla refuses patches that implement font formats in use by other > browsers, because of DRM FUD, it seems to be turning its back on the > spirit of the web. What happened to "take back the web"?
Technically, none of the W3C specifications are standards. W3C is not a standards-setting organization. W3C publishes specifications that are called "Recommendation". As for CCS3, it is nowhere near ready for be treated as the equivalent of a standard. The Web Fonts specification in CSS3 has been stuck at "Working Draft" since 2002. To reach final "Recommendation" status, it must first go through "Candidate Recommendation" and "Proposed Recommendation". Then, two separate implementations (e.g., browsers) must pass a series of standardized W3C test cases before the specification can reach the "Recommendation" status. (The unified CSS2.1 specification has gone through the "Working Draft" and "Candidate Recommendation" stages twice already. This specification is awaiting testing in two implementations, but the testing is being delayed because the test cases have not all been developed yet.) Even if the W3C specifications were formal standards, the Web Fonts specification would not yet be a standard. Thus, it not true that the Mozilla organization "has to implement the @font-face feature." Web Fonts is a CSS3 capability. The unified CSS2.1 specification is much closer to reaching "Recommendation" status than any part of the fragmented CSS3 specification. While I too would like to see Web Fonts implemented, my priority would be to finish implementing all of CSS2.1 first, which is not yet complete for Mozilla products. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. _______________________________________________ dev-tech-layout mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-layout
