Re: Explicit WOFF metadata format declaration?
Chris Lilley <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.fonts |
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| Organization | W3C |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thursday, November 18, 2010, 4:36:48 PM, Laurence wrote: LP> Is there any merit in the idea of a 'format' attribute in the root <metadata> element? LP> I ask because it seems likely that WOFF XML metadata will find LP> itself sometimes separated from the WOFF files for which it is LP> intended. For example, XML may be exported from an editor before LP> being imported into a WOFF font via sfnt2woff; or font vendors may LP> use an XML template file, which has some of its contents replaced LP> programmatically before being embedded into a WOFF. In such cases LP> it seems beneficial to identify the XML, unambiguously, as WOFF LP> metadata. The generic <metadata> tag is insufficient for this. Fair point, and I would not be opposed to adding @format to the metadata element. LP> If this proposal is attractive, I propose the standard value LP> "font/woff" for the format attribute. It would be a MAY not a MUST in the spec, of course. Please see discussions on media type at the Lyon f2f meeting. In the end we decided to go with application/font-woff because past experience showed that attempting to registera font top level type would encounter significant resistance at IANA. -- Chris Lilley Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups