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Re: [websec] font sniffing

"Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com> Mon, 24 October 2011 11:43 UTC

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On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:36:50 +0900, Tobias Gondrom  
<tobias.gondrom@gondrom.org> wrote:
> So a specific use case for this could be helpful - and a volunteer to
> provide input on by which criteria exactly fonts should be sniffed and
> help with writing up the font mime-type for the registry (I can help
> with the latter).

The use case is @font-face, CSS' font linking feature. The criteria I have  
emailed to this list before:

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/websec/current/msg00235.html


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