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Thread: IE8: Font Embedding on the Web
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LSW
Advanced Member USA Joined: Nov 27, 2003 Post Count: 6287 Status: Offline |
Well isn't that just nifty: We made significant progress this week, when one of the USA's most prestigious font companies announced its support for the Embedded OpenType format for font embedding on the Web, and launched a new website to promote other browsers to support it in addition to Internet Explorer (which has had EOT support built-in since 1996). - Font Embedding on the Web (IE Blog) Of course being able to use any script style font or outrageous font you like to make the site unreadable is more important than supporting standards like XHTML which is still not going to be supported. That makes sense when you are more worried about Jane Doe being able to make Kewel web sites... Big thumbs up for priorities... lets not support what others do so we can claim to support what others don't.  For anyone not sure of the deal, this has to do with the Weft software M$ came up with to embed certain fonts in the web site. I played with Weft in 2001 and a friend did around 2006 and in both cases the only fonts supported basically all looked alike anyways so their was not much of a choice. This sounds like there will be more choice... but i would guess they are purchased fonts and not free ones. ---------------------------------------- Gu.aal kwsh� yak'�i it�akw ijeet wugood�k LSW-WebDesign.com ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by LSW at Aug 4, 2008 4:05:07 PM] |
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cboudy
Advanced Member Joined: May 26, 2006 Post Count: 1757 Status: Offline |
Yea, this does sound like a bad idea, especially from a usually standpoint. Wait never mind, it will only work in IE8 |
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lwsimon
Advanced Member US Joined: Sep 24, 2007 Post Count: 396 Status: Offline |
Don't you love how MS is starting to insert the word "Open" in front of everything they do, even though they are in no way "open"? I think font embedding would be nice, and if this standard is truly open, great. I doubt it will be a decent feature though --- I've never seen a forward-thinking feature coded into IE that worked properly. ----------------------------------------  Simple is better. |
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