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I'll be interested to see how they will deal with the licensing issues regarding font embedding. Right now, there aren't a whole lot of non-free fonts that all
by zweben 16y ago
I'll be interested to see how they will deal with the licensing issues regarding font embedding. Right now, there aren't a whole lot of non-free fonts that allow @font-face embedding, because embedding a font with @font-face makes the font downloadable to anyone with a little digging through CSS files for its URL.
I hope a solution is found for this that doesn't require specific allowance of CSS embedding in the license. If it does, some fonts will never be legal to embed.
- benologist 16y agoEmbedding in general will be interesting... being able to ctrl+c/ctrl+v anything you want straight to your blog/website/spam site has to impact their reach.
- petercooper 16y agoThe fonts are what interest me too. Not just the licensing, though (that never stopped YouTube with its videos - at least not for a few years!) but with having to convert a myriad of fonts embedded in documents into SVG fonts (otherwise they won't work on the iPad).. that's no mean feat.
- ars 16y agoWhy does everyone worry about fonts so much? You can download a copyrighted image just as easily, and you can copy paste the copyrighted text too. So what's the big deal that you can copy the font? And the most ridiculous thing is that fonts aren't even copyrightable. (You can copyright the actual file with the fonts, but not the shape of them.)