[OpenFontLibrary] Firefox 3.5 showing off @font-face prominently

2009-06-17 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi, Just upgraded my Firefox to the 3.5 prerelease, and its welcome page is http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5/whatsnew/ which uses a comic font loaded via http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/style/tignish/firstrun-3-5-rc1.css but which I can't track down the developers of. Its available

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Firefox 3.5 showing off @font-face prominently

2009-06-17 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
Dave Crossland wrote: Hi, Just upgraded my Firefox to the 3.5 prerelease, and its welcome page is http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5/whatsnew/ which uses a comic font loaded via http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/style/tignish/firstrun-3-5-rc1.css but which I can't track down the

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Firefox 3.5 showing off @font-face prominently

2009-06-17 Thread Antonio Roberts
I hope this happens! They could've even used the open comic font http://arthurreeder.deviantart.com/art/Open-Comic-Font-92530119 2009/6/17 Nicolas Spalinger nicolas_spalin...@sil.org: Dave Crossland wrote: Hi, Just upgraded my Firefox to the 3.5 prerelease, and its welcome page is

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Firefox 3.5 showing off @font-face prominently

2009-06-17 Thread Robert Martinez
Dave Crossland wrote: Yes, I'll email my contacts in Mozilla now :) What about server performance? Might OFLB servers get into trouble if it actually would host a font on the 3.5 release?

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Firefox 3.5 showing off @font-face prominently

2009-06-17 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/6/17 Robert Martinez m...@mray.de: Dave Crossland wrote: Yes, I'll email my contacts in Mozilla now :) What about server performance? Might OFLB servers get into trouble if it actually would host a font on the 3.5 release? (a) The OFLB is hosted at osuosl.org which has plenty of

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Firefox 3.5 showing off @font-face prominently

2009-06-17 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 17 juin 2009 à 16:53 +0100, Dave Crossland a écrit : Hi, Just upgraded my Firefox to the 3.5 prerelease, and its welcome page is http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5/whatsnew/ which uses a comic font loaded via

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Firefox 3.5 showing off @font-face prominently

2009-06-17 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/6/17 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net: The mozilla blog that was posted promoted css patterns with @font-face with yet other ways to make people miserable (decide you want Helvetica Neue, admit it's not available everywhere, link through @font-face a mgopen file instead, but

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Firefox 3.5 showing off @font-face prominently

2009-06-17 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 17 juin 2009 à 19:19 +0100, Dave Crossland a écrit : I'm not impressed but then I'm about the only person on this list who never believed in @font-face world-saving powers in the first place. What would you have instead? :-) Browser people: 1. promoting a good complement of

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Firefox 3.5 showing off @font-face prominently

2009-06-17 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/6/17 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net: Le mercredi 17 juin 2009 à 19:19 +0100, Dave Crossland a écrit : I'm not impressed but then I'm about the only person on this list who never believed in @font-face world-saving powers in the first place. What would you have instead?

[OpenFontLibrary] MS font preinstall

2009-06-17 Thread Fontfreedom
I'm not impressed but then I'm about the only person on this list who never believed in @font-face world-saving powers in the first place. What would you have instead? :-) Browser people: 1. promoting a good complement of libre fonts so more are installed by default Unless you got

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Firefox 3.5 showing off @font-face prominently

2009-06-17 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 21:30 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: The cynical part of me says: Scenario A. Commercial web site: 1. design departments will still swear by whatever expensive fonts Adobe puts in its products Libre/Free is not about dollar price. (Adobe's fonts are actually fairly