On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Brion Vibber<[email protected]> wrote: > Amir E. Aharoni wrote: >> I am proofreading Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar [1] on the English Wikisource. >> >> It uses intricate formatting and for proper display of Biblical Hebrew it >> needs a font which isn't installed on most people's computers. Fortunately, >> this font, called Ezra SIL SR, is Free Software, released under the Open >> Font License.[2] >> >> Some modern browsers, such as Firefox 3.5 are able to render downloadable >> fonts in a way that is consistent with draft CSS 3 standard. Would it be >> possible to upload such a free font to Wikimedia servers and let people who >> use modern browsers, but don't have the font on their computer, enjoy the >> book with proper fonts without bothering with installing new fonts? > > That'd be spiffy! :) A couple notes... > > > On the web & wiki end: > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/%40font-face > > It's not clear to me when fonts referenced in a @font-face get loaded; > whether they'll always load when referenced in a style sheet, or only > when something actually uses a style that requires them. > > In particular for fonts that will only be used on some pages rather than > on a whole site, we don't want to force people to be downloading fonts > they're not using. > > We should confirm what the behavior is with Firefox 3.5, Safari 3.1/4.0, > and Opera 10 betas; unless they're very smart about only loading what > they need, we'll probably need to devise an extension to import > particular fonts for a given page. <snip>
According to what I've read, Firefox 3.5 is supposed to only load fonts that are actually used. I haven't tested this directly though. -Robert Rohde _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
