808573 - Allow to attach font files

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: File attachments, defect)

Description

[Jeremie Patonnier :Jeremie]

In order to have a live example working on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Forms/Styling_HTML_forms I need to be able to attach some font files

Because the example is cross-browser compatible, I cannot relay on DATA:URI to embed the fonts inside an HTML file (Legacy IEs do not support DATA:URI).

So it would be convenient to allow EOT, WOFF and TTF files to be attached to a page.

Comment 1

[Jeremie Patonnier :Jeremie]

Attachment: An example EOT font

Comment 2

[Jeremie Patonnier :Jeremie]

Attachment: An example TTF font

Comment 3

[Jeremie Patonnier :Jeremie]

Attachment: An example WOFF font

Comment 4

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

Python is finding the MIME of these to be "application/octet-stream", which we don't want to open.  We could add this to our htaccess file:

AddType application/x-font-woff .woff

Any thoughts on how to handle this James?

Comment 5

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

Ali, why is this invalid? AFAIK we can't embed font to use in our various font-related pages.

Comment 7

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Updated the list of permitted MIME types to include:

application/font-woff          [.woff]
application/x-font-truetype    [.ttf]
application/x-font-opentype    [.otf]
application/font-woff2         [.woff2]

The question is: does the server send the files in the correct type? If not, we need to htaccess this (or the equivalent on AWS).

Comment 8

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

All I know is that when I try to upload a font, the file is sent but the site does nothing when it arrives. It's weird.

Comment 9

[Jannis Leidel [:jezdez]]

:sheppy can you try again?

Comment 10

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

(In reply to Jannis Leidel [:jezdez] from comment #9)
> :sheppy can you try again?

Just tried an .otf file and got "Files of this type are not permitted."

Comment 11

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