Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Allow Free Fonts from websites option

[Narcis Garcia]

If fonts have no license metadata, then this distinction is not a well
doable.
What user-side can do is to have some plugin that replaces web-requested
fonts to a catalog of FOSS ones, but not the browser itself.


El 08/08/17 a les 22:51, ng0 ha escrit:
> How would you check the license of a font at runtime?
> Hardcoding names? Not an option, please don't even think about it.
> Maintaining a list of fonts that are considered free? That could become
> outdated very soon and will never be 100% complete. Off the table aswell.
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> So far this is the start of an early idea, not a start for an proposal.
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> David Hedlund transcribed 3.2K bytes:
>> It is not unchecked in icecat 52.2.1 for Trisquel 7.
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>> On 2016-06-05 00:26, Alejandro Hernández wrote:
>>> Hi,
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>>> Icecat has uncheck this typography option by default:*Allow pages to choose 
>>> their own fonts*.
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>>>
>>> I would like to*allow sites to choose their own fonts*  *ONLY IF THEY ARE 
>>> FREE SOFTWARE*. It would be good there were an*option*  for that.
>>>
>>> Sonrisa
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
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