On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> Reference?
I can't find the exact one but here you go for now:
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Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 03:38:59 -0800
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>>From: dara
Message 8 in Discussion
Does anyone here experience with netscape? the eot file never work on netscape. if
you have solution please let me know. Thank
>>From: mjan
Message 6 in Discussion
Actually, the support for pfr's in Netscape was removed in version 6. Sorry. -
Michael
>>From: Ikast-jensen
Message 7 in Discussion
There's no way you can get an .eot type file recognized by Netscape. Sadly, Netscape
newest browsers version 6 and 7, while superior in many ways, does no longer support
embeddable fonts. Netscape 4 did, supporting the True Doc format. With the help of
the Bitsream Font Wizard you could make font definition files of the type .pfr, which
did the same thing as the .eot file, albeit in another way. Thus it was only a
matter of detecting the brrowser and load the proper font definition file. But
that's all water under a long gone bridge. The sad fact remains, that only Microsoft
browsers support embeddable fonts. What to do, then? In a recent experiment, I used
an .eot file in Microsoft browsers, and alternative stylesheet for all oter browsers,
thus:
if (!document.all) {
document.write('