[whatwg] Using fonts stored on servers

[Ashley Sheridan]

On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 14:43 -0700, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Ashley Sheridan
> <ash at ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 23:25 +0200, Onsemeliot wrote:
> >
> > Hi people,
> >
> > I hope nobody is offended if I start being a member of this group by asking for a feature in the new standard.
> >
> > I'm a web designer and try to stick to clear standards in order to get the best results on various systems, but I wonder why you don't implement the support of defining (at least) free font faces stored at any server.
> >
> > There is an old solution for this on Netscape 4.1 and IE 4, but no newer browser supports anything similar.
> >
> > I often work with very tight corporite design rules. They need to be implemented in all layout's, but it is always necessary to violate them on web pages because it is impossible to use specific fonts there without switching to images instead of using real text.
> >
> > Do you see any chance of supporting such a feature in the future?
> >
> > Bye for now
> > Onsemeliot
> >
> > CSS3 has this in terms of font support, but it's just a wait for browsers to implement it or reject it I guess:
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/
> 
> All modern browsers support the @font-face declaration in CSS.  Even
> IE6 and 7 do.  There is a slight wrinkle in that they accept different
> formats, though.  IE only accepts fonts in the EOT format, while other
> browsers accept fonts in the normal TTF format and possibly WOFF
> format.  There are converters both online and downloadable to turn a
> TTF font into an EOT very easily, and there are guides online about
> how to safely and easily serve both types of fonts to both browsers
> (you can't *quite* do what the CSS Fonts module says, because IE's
> support is somewhat buggy).
> 
> So feel free to use webfonts on your website.  All your visitors will
> be able to see them.
> 
> ~TJ


http://webfonts.info/wiki/index.php?title=@font-face_browser_support
shows what browsers support what.

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk


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