The CSS font-face property is great for web typography. Having to use images in order to get the correct typeface is a great sadness; one should be able to use vectors.See also my discussion of the terror of web fonts.
However, the TrueType renderers on many platforms have never been part of the attack surface before and putting them on the front line is a scary proposition. Esp on platforms like Windows where it's a closed-source blob running with high privilege.
Thus, the OpenType Condom (OTC) is designed to parse and serialise OpenType files, validating them and sanitising them as it goes. Most significantly, it removes hinting bytes from the files as it processes.
opentype condom
-
memcache job offers
I get occasional recruiter spam that specifically calls out "my work on memcached". This is pretty funny because all I did was make some trivial…
-
application stack
"Put yourself in 1995. I'm going to tell the you of 1995 that in 2010, there will be a software platform with the following properties:" Luis Villa…
-
bsd license advertising
Did you know that the 3-clause BSD (that is, the one with the "advertising" clause stripped) license still has an advertising requirement? Read it…
- Post a new comment
- 10 comments
- Post a new comment
- 10 comments
-
memcache job offers
I get occasional recruiter spam that specifically calls out "my work on memcached". This is pretty funny because all I did was make some trivial…
-
application stack
"Put yourself in 1995. I'm going to tell the you of 1995 that in 2010, there will be a software platform with the following properties:" Luis Villa…
-
bsd license advertising
Did you know that the 3-clause BSD (that is, the one with the "advertising" clause stripped) license still has an advertising requirement? Read it…
