Q: webfonts:

Alec Leamas leamas.alec at gmail.com
Sat Apr 27 11:49:53 UTC 2013


Hi!

I'm trying to package a web application with bundled fonts. These fonts 
are used by the web clients (browsers), and just served from the Fedora 
webapp. The case is similar to javascript .js files.

Trying to package the webfonts as dependencies I have run into problem 
together with my reviewer. Basically, we don't know what to do. Some 
questions:

- Where should webfonts be stored?  A specific dir would be good, since 
some fonts exists in both a webfont and desktop variant with the same 
filenames.
- How shoulld webapps get access to the system webfont? Is the apache 
config file approach used for ..js files, where the webapp gets access 
to specific system paths, usable also here?
- Given that the primary concern about fonts seems to be licensing, is 
it really meaningful to unbundle them?

This is the short story. The somewhat longer: 
https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/277

Any help, out there?

--alec


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