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 -----Original Message----- From: websec-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:websec-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Anne van Kesteren Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 4:44 AM To: Tobias Gondrom Cc: websec@ietf.org Subject: Re: [websec] font sniffing On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:36:50 +0900, Tobias Gondrom <tobias.gond...@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 -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/ _______________________________________________ websec mailing list websec@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/websec _______________________________________________ websec mailing list websec@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/websec
