Interesting... and good news! I thought downloadable
fonts simply didn't work anymore. They didn't work in
one of my docs. I'll try it again... I was
specifying both a .pfr (for NS4) and an .eot in my
style sheet... IE chose the one that it could use, but
Moz didn't choose either. Anyone else have this
experience? Maybe it's a bug I should report? I'll
have to go back and take a clsoer look at what I did.
I'm excited now. Personally, I don't like the WEFT
fonts nearly as much as the Bitstream ones because
they're not antialiased. This means that you can't
use most fonts without them becoming illegible, which
really defeats the whole purpose.
I know that in IE there is a fontsmoothing property
that can be checked via Javascript, so that at least I
have the possibility of serving a particular font ONLY
if the user has font smoothing set on their system.
Can Mozilla access this in some way? I hope so!
KC
-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Pruitt
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
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