Hi, I was idly thinking of following up on the fact that Safari and Opera support a @font-face CSS rule (that will pull in a font file from the web and use it to display text as if it were a font local to the computer).*
I wondered about offering a service that hosted such fonts. It could be an outgrowth of http://openfontlibrary.org/ (because it would share the same aim - "collect public domain fonts *so that they may be used freely*"). It's just speculation, particularly because font files are typically no bigger than the images that are used on web pages, so individual sites won't really notice a performance hit from serving copies of the fonts themselves. It could generate interesting usage stats though - as well as potentially having a significant impact on OFL bandwidth... Anyone discussing this elsewhere? Have I not been paying attention? ;-) Cheers, Ben *Perhaps other browsers may also do so in the future. _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
