[OpenFontLibrary] latest?

[Chris Lilley]

On Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 5:27:23 PM, Nicolas wrote:


NM> Le Mer 21 octobre 2009 16:14, Nicolas Spalinger a écrit :

>> Font optimizer services like
>> http://fonts.philip.html5.org/ already take that fact into account and
>> handle the renaming when they generate a branch.

>> If they absolutely need to keep the upstream name they can directly
>> negotiate with upstream for permissions.

NM> That's actually a good reason *not* to do woff. 

No, that's a reason to automatically, or on demand, serve a woff version as well with the same name.

NM> If woff+ofl means renamed
NM> fonts, and we start seeing web sites that use gentium (or another) in their
NM> css rules but via another name, forcing download of gentium data when
NM> perfectly fine gentium is already available locally, it will be a net loss.

Agree that needless renaming would be a net loss here.



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