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@font-face
Posted by simonw on Wed 17 Jun 2009 at 21:40
I saw a comment that firefox 3.5 will support @font-face, allowing downloadable fonts.
However dreams of a nice universal font downloaded on demand are stomped on by IE only supporting some Microsoft proprietary embeddable font designed to prevent people sharing font files (even those they are allowed to).
Finding a succinct source with accurate data on browser support for this was hard, a bug report on the Microsoft web site was the best I found.
Wikipedia has two articles, both of them pretty useless.
Obligatory Test page:
http://simonwaters.technocool.net/test/fonts.html
Soon everyone will have a browser that supports downloadable fonts, just you have to do more work to make it work in IE - alternatively they could just "get Firefox". So the above test page should display in an almost unreadable script font everywhere but IE. If it doesn't show as a handwriting font - get a better browser.
However dreams of a nice universal font downloaded on demand are stomped on by IE only supporting some Microsoft proprietary embeddable font designed to prevent people sharing font files (even those they are allowed to).
Finding a succinct source with accurate data on browser support for this was hard, a bug report on the Microsoft web site was the best I found.
Wikipedia has two articles, both of them pretty useless.
Obligatory Test page:
http://simonwaters.technocool.net/test/fonts.html
Soon everyone will have a browser that supports downloadable fonts, just you have to do more work to make it work in IE - alternatively they could just "get Firefox". So the above test page should display in an almost unreadable script font everywhere but IE. If it doesn't show as a handwriting font - get a better browser.
Comments on this Entry
Posted by Anonymous (217.91.xx.xx) on Mon 22 Jun 2009 at 08:06
My dream is certainly not that websites can start downloading random fonts on my computer without my consent. Basically the only thing I need to find out about font downloading is how I can disable it.
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