Re: Font description is missing @url
"Martin J. Dürst" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.fonts |
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| Organization | Aoyama Gakuin University |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hello Chris, I don't mind what you call it, but can you please make sure that IRIs are actually allowed? Regards, Martin. On 2010/10/31 6:33, Chris Lilley wrote: > Hello www-font, > > Working on some woff metadata examples today, It occurred to me that the description element is missing a url attribute. > > The element is defined as > > description element > > An arbitrary text description of the font's design, its history, etc. This element is optional. If present, it must be a child of the metadata element. This element may be localized. > > History, design, influences etc are all interesting and can get quite long, so it seems reasonable to put a shorter summary in the text child of the description element and have a url attribute (as with several other metadata elements) for further information. > > I propose therefore the following spec text: > > attributes > url The url for more information about the font design, history, etc. This attribute is optional. > > The impact on existing implementations should be minimal. The RNG is also easy to edit if we decide to add this attribute. > -- #-# Martin J. Dürst, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:[email protected]