625358 - Support font/ mime supertype for web fonts

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, enhancement)

Description

[John Drinkwater (:beta)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b9pre) Gecko/20110108 Firefox/4.0b9pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b9pre) Gecko/20110108 Firefox/4.0b9pre

Firefox currently accepts any mimetype for web font loaded via CSS. It can do better than that.

See URL for a draft IETF proposal for font/ supertype support that has expired. I hope to be encouraging it out from expiry. The hope is that as the draft progresses, web developers will start to use the as-yet-unproposed proposed subtypes.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

Discussing this on the newsgroups/mailing lists is a better way to solicit Mozilla dev feedback. https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo Bugs are only read by a small fraction of possible interested parties.

Comment 2

[John Drinkwater (:beta)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Discussing this on the newsgroups/mailing lists is a better way to solicit
> Mozilla dev feedback. https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo Bugs are only read by
> a small fraction of possible interested parties.

Mhmm, I’ve sent off a few emails, this is just a tracker so far

Comment 3

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

The W3C WebFonts WG discussed this late last year, and the current position is that it seems unlikely a new font/ top-level type will be registered in the foreseeable future. See the email thread "WOFF type registration" at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webfonts-wg/2010Nov/.

At this point, the expectation is that WOFF fonts will use application/font-woff (see http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-types/current/msg01115.html); other font formats could potentially be registered similarly, though I don't know of anyone pursuing this at present.