Firefox cross domain font issue

At least they should allow it for root domain to access subdomain's. I put all static files in a subdomain to make them free of cookies, but such restriction makes things difficult.

The reasoning given, that font vendors don't want people linking to their fonts, seems pretty wrong headed. This is just another stupid standard making life harder and hurting productivity for web developers.

I've never managed to fully understand the purpose of any cross-domain rules on the browser. So many can be easily (relatively) circumvented, why waste people's time at all?

So is javascript.

This is a ridiculous argument - there are no "good" reasons only a lot of FUD and font vendors who want this as a roundabout form of asset protection. The fonts are accessible by anyone who can use wget and can be copied and hosted anywhere else instead. Useless on all fronts, this just restricts the public web from end users.

Do not forget that the website must link to the asset in question. Why would they link to something they don't trust? Everyone trusts jQuery to not be malicious and everyone has links to cross-origin code running on their site. This is what makes the web a "web". Otherwise you would only be able to link with yourself.

Code is data; data is code. There is no fundamental distinction. Image decoders interpret a code, the output of which is a bitmap.

For now i'm just waiting on them to fix it, and serving fonts via nginx from our web-front end.