> Please note there's a rather strong privacy issue here. I don't want a > web page to be able - without my prior consent - to query the list of > fonts available in my system.
You already have this problem if a website were to create a list of elements with a list of different fonts and use Javascript to determine which font is being displayed. [1] I'm not advocating opening another hole just because one already exists - I'm just pointing this out. [1] http://www.lalit.org/lab/javascript-css-font-detect