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Kudos to Ascender for their effort, but it seems to me that their report might be missing the point calling as 'failed' fonts for something that is not really relevant to the issue.

1) Missing hinting tables: hinting tables are a good thing to have in a font file, but if there is not one (out of three), well, so what? One will miss on the "better screen quality", but the thing will still be usable.

2) Windows 1252: big fail here, as Win1252 is definitely not the same as Latin-1 (aka ISO 8859-1). I didn't check what exact glyphs are stated to be missing, but they might have been looking at the wrong positions believing Win1252 == Latin-1.

More, the lower half of both Latin-whatever and Win-whatever are the same as good old ASCII, which contains a fair share of non-printable characters and control codes. Does someone really care if there is not a glyph for BEL, ACK or SYN?

BTW, the default best practice for I18N since the demise of NN4 is utf-8, but it gets no mention at all...

3) Mac Roman: see last point above. Mac Roman was a pain in the ... until OS-X, breaking I18N rendering right and left. Can't remember anyone lamenting its deserved demise - until this report. Can't think of anybody in web design who cares now.

4) No copyright string: might have a point here - if the string has been actually stripped away. But they call it failed even if the author placed the file in the public domain, thus making the font on purpose free to and for all.

5) No trademark: makes sense only if the font is a object of trade. I see many fonts by Laramie in the report - all marked clearly as 'freeware' in the Copyright string and with a blank trademark string. Where is the failure exactly with such a font?

6) Embedding restriction: calles 'fail' without explaining exactly what was wrong here...

Overall this could be an useful report - if they'd only make it anew (this one is dated 2006), this time checking for utf-8 and avoding the blunder with Win1252 (and, please, forget about Mac Roman - OS-X has been around since 1999 and it defaults to utf-8). As a "leading provider of advanced font products" they should't let such sloppyness be released with their name and logo on top.

Posted in /blog/2008/oct/font-linking.

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 at 08:22:20: Link

May I suggest Fiddler, a free and decent proxy?

http://www.fiddler2.com/

It does the trick for me.

Posted in /blog/2008/aug/inspecting-and-hacking-http.

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 at 17:54:02: Link

Please take note that your 'Facebook leak' link in the 2nd paragraph is pointing back to shiflett.org - I had to fiddle with the URL to go to TechCrunch.

... and don't you dare to spit out source code to me just 'cause I caught you in error.

Anyway, nice write-up overall.

Posted in /blog/2007/sep/catching-up-and-keeping-up.

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 at 14:09:08: Link