I apologize if this has been touched upon before...
Anyway, I've noticed that in Netscape 6 / Mozilla for Win32, support for
Bitstream's font embedding technology has been dropped, in favor of the
WEFT format as promoted by Microsoft (and included in IE 4 / 5). I've
tested WEFT fonts with Netscape 6 and Mozilla 0.8 in Windows, and it
works *beautifully*, rendering the fonts exactly like IE 5.5.
Oddly, though, WEFT support is lacking in Mozilla for Linux (I haven't
yet tried it on my old Mac...). My question is this: regardless of
developer sentiment towards the concept of embedded fonts, is this
(WEFT) or is this not now an "internet standard" (current or proposed)?
If so, why is this functionality lacking in the Linux build (in such
a "cross-platform" browser)? If not, why is it even present in the Win32
build (as opposed to bitstream, or dropping support for embedded fonts
altogether)?
I'm not griping or really requesting anything - I'm just curious as to
what the story is with this. :) Embedded fonts, if truly implemented
cross-platform and cross-browser in a standard fashion, might be a neat
thing...
::eagerly awaiting Mozilla 1.0::,
-Josh
