On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 14:43 -0700, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Ashley Sheridan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 23:25 +0200, Onsemeliot wrote: > > > > Hi people, > > > > I hope nobody is offended if I start being a member of this group by asking > > for a feature in the new standard. > > > > I'm a web designer and try to stick to clear standards in order to get the > > best results on various systems, but I wonder why you don't implement the > > support of defining (at least) free font faces stored at any server. > > > > There is an old solution for this on Netscape 4.1 and IE 4, but no newer > > browser supports anything similar. > > > > I often work with very tight corporite design rules. They need to be > > implemented in all layout's, but it is always necessary to violate them on > > web pages because it is impossible to use specific fonts there without > > switching to images instead of using real text. > > > > Do you see any chance of supporting such a feature in the future? > > > > Bye for now > > Onsemeliot > > > > CSS3 has this in terms of font support, but it's just a wait for browsers > > to implement it or reject it I guess: > > > > http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/ > > All modern browsers support the @font-face declaration in CSS. Even > IE6 and 7 do. There is a slight wrinkle in that they accept different > formats, though. IE only accepts fonts in the EOT format, while other > browsers accept fonts in the normal TTF format and possibly WOFF > format. There are converters both online and downloadable to turn a > TTF font into an EOT very easily, and there are guides online about > how to safely and easily serve both types of fonts to both browsers > (you can't *quite* do what the CSS Fonts module says, because IE's > support is somewhat buggy). > > So feel free to use webfonts on your website. All your visitors will > be able to see them. > > ~TJ
http://webfonts.info/wiki/index.php?tit...@font-face_browser_support shows what browsers support what. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
