Id voice your concern on the www-style list, since css3 web fonts isn't a
final rec yet, and I expect more font fun in css4... :)
Regards, Dave
On 30 May 2009, 1:43 AM, Karl Berry k...@freefriends.org wrote:
You could always override other people's design choices in your own browser
if needed:
All I want to do with font-face is disable it. Is that possible?
Sure, use an old browser which doesn't support it.
Hi,
I hope I don't get flamed for this. I'm not a typophile, but an i18n'er.
I've been working all my adult life making sure GNOME is accessible to people
in any language they wish to use it with. I fully understand the importance
of having good, high quality, legible, fonts. I also
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 10:30 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
[...]
What I don't understand is, why is it a good idea to let website designers
choose what font *I* read their text with? It's a basic usability question.
It's a balance. Like Flash™, on the one foot it allows people to experiment
On 05/29/2009 10:57 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
Of course, there are also i18n reasons to supply a font -- if you're
writing in a script that has poor support on major platforms, you no
longer have to decide between text-in-images or telling people to
install a font.
This made me smile. It was
+1
And one important effect I think expected by many,
is that the web becomes more attractive for professional graphic
designers,
Who at the moment far prefer working in print exactly because of the
control over typography, layout, measurements etc…
And are skilled in using these elements
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
What I don't understand is, why is it a good idea to let website designers
choose what font *I* read their text with?
Think of paper books :)
Alexandre
On 05/29/2009 11:10 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
What I don't understand is, why is it a good idea to let website designers
choose what font *I* read their text with?
Think of paper books :)
Their limitation that I can't resize the
Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
Hi,
I hope I don't get flamed for this. I'm not a typophile, but an
i18n'er. I've been working all my adult life making sure GNOME is
accessible to people in any language they wish to use it with. I fully
understand the importance of having good, high quality,
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote:
So, please tell me, how is
making it easier for website designers to enforce their type on me a good
thing?
Right now, people use sIFR or image replacement. This is hard for a
viewer to change. By moving to @font-face,
Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
So, please tell me, how is making it easier for website designers to
enforce their type on me a good thing?
More freedom to them :-)
and more visibility for open fonts too: as designers get the chance to
use fonts besides the MS/Apple non-free 'core-fonts'
Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
...
But I think for many people @font-face will be a great enabler: they
will have a much nicer solution for publishing content on the web (or
platforms using web-technologies) via open standards and have to worry
about pictures and problematic encodings to represent
On 05/29/2009 12:16 PM, Christopher Fynn wrote:
Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
...
But I think for many people @font-face will be a great enabler: they
will have a much nicer solution for publishing content on the web (or
platforms using web-technologies) via open standards and have to worry
about
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
This will change hopefully by the end of the year. Firefox plans to use
HarfBuzz on all platforms.
Speaking of which... What is the best way to track HarfBuzz progress?
Alexandre
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Jeremy Dunck jdu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote:
So, please tell me, how is
making it easier for website designers to enforce their type on me a good
thing?
Right now, people use sIFR or image
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Simos Xenitellis
simos.li...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Jeremy Dunck jdu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote:
So, please tell me, how is
making it easier for website designers
El Fri, 29 May 2009 10:30:50 -0400
Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org escribió:
Hi,
What I don't understand is, why is it a good idea to let website
designers choose what font *I* read their text with?
you always have the possibility to change to your own page style in the
browser
page
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Jeremy Dunck jdu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Simos Xenitellis
simos.li...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Jeremy Dunck jdu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Simos Xenitellis
simos.li...@googlemail.com wrote:
...
This would be easier if it was possible to negotiate between the browser and
website as to which fonts are desired, sort of 'Accept-Font' (similar
to Accept-Encoding and Accept-Language).
Can the browser
You could always override other people's design choices in your own
browser if needed:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/UserContent.css
http://uwstopia.nl/blog/2006/01/my-fonts-are-better-than-yours
All I want to do with font-face is disable it. Is that possible? I
looked at these
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