On Sunday, May 23, 2010, 7:09:39 PM, Liam wrote: LREQ> On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 10:58 +0200, Schrijver wrote: >> nice. >> Yet; if they’re open to font contributions, why don’t they just mirror the >> catalogue of OFLBv2?
LREQ> By encouraging people to use an API, Google makes sure most people will LREQ> refer to the fonts on their site, and this lets them add a cookie, and LREQ> track visitors to more Web sites, helping them to learn more about LREQ> people, and present them with better-targeted advertising. So there's a LREQ> fairly clear (as I see it at least) business reason for them to do this. Which is why I just did the get-via-mercurial route, bypassing their hosting and their api. -- Chris Lilley mailto:[email protected] Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
