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WICG / local-font-access

Web API for enumerating fonts on the local system
https://wicg.github.io/local-font-access
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Remove table access references in explainer #42

Closed oyiptong closed 3 years ago

oyiptong commented 3 years ago

Changing the explainer to reflect the change in API shape, removing table access API and references.

There will be a subsequent PR to remove references in the spec document as well at a later date.

kevinbarabash commented 3 years ago

We've heard from partners that this alternative does not provide a lot of value, and may in fact be counter-productive, because intended use-cases of this API subsume font data parsing tasks and require re-assembling the tables into a whole.

Does this mean that vendors looking to port existing software packages to the web already have font parsing code that generates data structures that the rest of the code already knows how to use and so including a font parser in the browser isn't useful to those vendors?