There were two competing systems, one from a European font vendor (deployed in Netscape Communicator), and the other from Microsoft (deployed in IE). Neither gained much traction in the marketplace, even given IE's dominance, and I think the idea's been essentially dead for at least half a decade. Certainly only IE supports font embedding among the modern browsers. I don't think we should be spending any time on this.
The Firefox technique discussed in the cameraontheroad.com posting is nothing more than FF matching CSS font names against fonts installed on the local machine -- so if you happen to have Zapf Chancery on your machine, you'll see that font. Not really a predictable way of specifying font display. jim On Aug 21, 2006, at 9:33 AM, David Temkin wrote: > FYI, it appears that there's a way to embed fonts in HTML, but it > looks to be limited to certain browsers (at least IE?): > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/fontembed/font_embed.asp > http://www.cameraontheroad.com/index.php?p=524 > > On Aug 21, 2006, at 9:07 AM, Max Carlson wrote: > >> I vote for a runtime warning so it doesn't interfere with >> development. >> >> -Max >> >> Henry Minsky wrote: >>> >>> If an LZX app uses the <font> tag to import a font, and compile it >>> for >>> DHTML or other target which doesn't support >>> font inclusion, should the compiler give a warning, or silently >>> ignore >>> the font tag? >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Henry Minsky >>> Software Architect >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> - >>> --- >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Laszlo-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Laszlo-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev > > _______________________________________________ > Laszlo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev _______________________________________________ Laszlo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev
