Andy: >As far as I know, the only way to embed a font is to create a file for >it and download it to the client which uses it for that session and >then deletes it. And the process of creating the file is proprietary --
>a side battle of the browser wars. So, I guess then the answer is no, >you can't embed a font regardless of the visitor's browser. Peter: Very, very good. Now, Andy let extend your logic, 1. There is no robust way to "embed" anything in the browser (client). 2. So, the only proper technological approach is a server-side push. 3. Doing that in a theory we can present any content anywhere, or at least to map the content for a different presentation environment (WML, HTML, VoiceXML, SVG, PDF, etc, etc,) 4. Conclusion - see my original post; learn a better way of the web sites development. Regards, Tim: 1. Agreed. 2. Um, okay, I'll concede that. 3. "in theory" seems to be the key phrase here. 4. I don't see any kind of logical connection between 3 and the conclusion. For example, no matter how hard I try, I can't display or map an Excel spreadsheet in native format on a Mac Netscape browser...it must be converted to HTML or something similar that the browser can understand. I can't display a PDF file on a machine without a PDF reader. I can't display images in Lynx. Flash menus don't work unless the client has Flash installed...and some corporations don't allow that. In other words, the client *must* be prepared beforehand to display what I wish to give it, whether that's a MIME-association, a plugin, or a font. Some of that preparation can be pushed down; some of it can be loaded as plugins directly before use; but in either case something's going on to prepare the client to receive and interpret the data. Since my browser is unprepared for Armenian, all I see is seemingly random ASCII characters on my screen when I view the Armenian page. If you want to see an example of an Armenian font, check out http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kpearce/armfont1.htm. There are some GIFs that show various fonts with an Armenian word. It's quite distinguishable from random ASCII characters, and quite interesting visually. If I'm missing something crucial please clue me in! :-) I don't know much about non-U.S. browser usage, since 100% of my website's users are from the U.S. Most of them are using Microsoft's IE browser on some level of Windows platform; the majority of the rest are using IE or Netscape from a Mac. These two combinations account for 99% of my site's activity. If there's a way to generically and consistently push down fonts and other types of specialized content, I want to know. Tim __________________________ Tim Furry Web Developer Foulston Siefkin LLP ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
