Re: [Openfontlibrary] ccHost compression

2008-11-04 Thread Brendan Ferguson
> We can set the webserver to send files for download, so neither the > webserver or webbrowser will interpret them. I imagine that even if the files are set for download, they will be interpreted. If say I setup a GIF for PHP to run through it, and then force the download header, it will prob

Re: [Openfontlibrary] ccHost compression

2008-11-04 Thread Brendan Ferguson
> > Sounds like you are an expert around here :-) > But I have not done any coding in 4 years.. Brendan ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary

Re: [Openfontlibrary] ccHost compression

2008-11-04 Thread Brendan Ferguson
On Nov 3, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Ed Trager wrote: > Hi, Brendan, > > The PHP getId3() library is at http://getid3.sourceforge.net/. It > might be worth looking into how to expand this library to recognize > the TTF and OTF file headers, perhaps? The idea here seems quite > similar to what the *Nix "

Re: [Openfontlibrary] ccHost compression

2008-11-04 Thread Brendan Ferguson
> > Which dev list? :-) > ccHost Dev List >> One note of concern that I will research. If someone starts with >> a .html >> file and adds php content, then uploads it and renames it to .php, >> a script >> could be executed if the detect script does not register it as a >> php file > > I'v

Re: [Openfontlibrary] ccHost compression

2008-11-03 Thread Brendan Ferguson
dan On Nov 3, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > 2008/11/3 Brendan Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> By "headers" Ed means "the first few bytes of the file". So the >>> "file" >>> command does indeed id

Re: [Openfontlibrary] ccHost compression

2008-11-03 Thread Brendan Ferguson
>> > > By "headers" Ed means "the first few bytes of the file". So the "file" > command does indeed identify PHP files perfectly: > > I will take your word on it. I am clearly not up to date on this. Will it detect a PHP file with a .html file if I have enabled PHP support in .html files? Bren

[Openfontlibrary] Canadian Public Domain

2008-11-03 Thread Brendan Ferguson
> > Here in Canada there's no such thing as public domain. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5809 Is my recollection that copyright actually expires before US copyright in canada. I seem to remember that they use to be on par, but that the united states increased there copyright length

Re: [Openfontlibrary] ccHost compression

2008-11-02 Thread Brendan Ferguson
> I suppose the "Report possible License violation" feature could be > duplicated/extended to "Report possible malicious file" so a simple > machine filter like file extensions would have a social safety net. > >> The *nix "file" command reads the file >> headers and determines file type based on t

[Openfontlibrary] ccHost compression

2008-11-01 Thread Brendan Ferguson
> > (c) when any individual files are added to the typeface, create a new > zip that includes everything For what reason? Downloading? Is this essential or ideal? > > > (d) have the decompression work for any common format > > (e) have the compression happen in a range of formats So, everything

[Openfontlibrary] @font face & ccHost

2008-11-01 Thread Brendan Ferguson
Firefox does not render the @font face on my box. (OS X) but Safari Does! aka Mac computers ship with there default browser supporting it. Looks like the momentum is in our favour. Now, back to the ccHost. If someone is willing to coach me through what would be an ideal upload solution with

[Openfontlibrary] Compression Questions

2008-10-26 Thread Brendan Ferguson
>> > And looking is all it will do for Zips. No unarchiving... so I can't > for > example ask it about each of the files in the archive in a useful way. > It's just executing a system command or something in getID3 and then > waving the results in the air in an affable but essentially unhelpful >

Re: [Openfontlibrary] Openfontlibrary Digest, Vol 34, Issue 13

2008-10-25 Thread Brendan Ferguson
After dong a little investigating, ccHost does allow you to see the contents of a zip file. I installed ccHost and then uploaded a zip file. The contents were there. Am I on the same page as you guys? I would not allow me to use all the other font files though. There should be an option to

Re: [Openfontlibrary] Openfontlibrary Digest, Vol 34, Issue 13

2008-10-25 Thread Brendan Ferguson
I am very sure PHP can zip read zipped files, tarball and read tarballs. It really should not be a big deal expanding ccHost to do this. Brendan On Oct 25, 2008, at 12:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Send Openfontlibrary mailing list submissions to > openfontlibrary@lists.freedes

[Openfontlibrary] New Open Source Font, Help Migrating

2008-10-16 Thread Brendan Ferguson
> > It's really up to the designers to choose the appropriate license that > makes sense to them but we recommend the OFL as indicated on the wiki: > http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Font_Licensing Great > > > I'd also recommend getting the designer to read through the OFL FAQ. Will do. > > > As f