Re: WOFF and extended metadata
Chris Lilley <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.fonts |
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| Organization | W3C |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 6:57:45 PM, John wrote: JH> Erik van Blokland wrote: >> The only failing use cases are for things that you suggested to add. >> Dropping the meta data will greatly reduce the support the proposal has >> at the foundries and it would move the discussion back a year. I'm not >> sure that's a good way to go. JH> Standard metadata is definitely one of the key selling points of WOFF JH> for font makers and at least some of our customers. Uncertainty over the JH> structure of metadata *extension* shouldn't have any impact on normative JH> definition or acceptance of what I'll call core metadata. It would be good to have some examples of such standard metadata, preferably derived from real-world usage. The spec is short on examples here and good examples encourage people to copy and modify to suit their purposes. -- Chris Lilley mailto:[email protected] Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG