Webkiller

I had a major problem with IE9 beta as you know with two of my sites. It rejected the cufon.js for some reason and I am pushing them to fix it for the IE9 release. SOOOO What to do to keep your site viewed on IE9 but you want it to be compatible with IE8. Simple meta tag insert here it is folks enjoy :D : <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />

Did some research on why IE9 rejected my font .js text. This is very important so I started a new thread! Cufón and Typeface.js both work by linking to their javascript file and the font file in your: Cufón and Typeface.js are both methods to show text in custom fonts (like sIFR), are both only a couple of months old and both use canvas or VML. So what’s the difference? And which one is better? How Does It Work? Cufón and Typeface.js both work by converting a regular font file into an internal format. On execution, they display the font using Canvas in modern browsers, and VML in Internet Explorer. The benefits of doing it this way is that you do not need to load the Flash plugin. This makes it faster compared tosIFR, and visible on more computers. Font Conversion - PROPS TO THE JS TEAM AT MICROSOFT LOL Both Typeface.js and Cufón have an online font converter: Font converter for Cufón Font converter for Typeface.js You upload your font, select which glyph groups (which are sets like uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation etc.) you want to include and it returns a .js file containing your font. Typeface.js only supports TrueType (.ttf) fonts. Cufón also supports OpenType (.otf), Printer Font Binary and postscript. The converter for Typeface.js has a build-in check for the font license, and will refuse to convert any font that doesn’t allow embedding. On uploading, Typeface.js forwards to a page where you can select your glyphs and download your file. Cufón lets you select the glyphs on the first page, and also give you the option to include a bold and an italic variant in the same file. Besides that, it allows you to restrict usage to certain domains, and set the quality of the font (lower quality is faster performance). I used both to convert Optimer with uppercase, lowercase, numerals, punctuation and extended latin. Cufón’s file is called Optimer_400.font.js and is 27.3kb while Typeface.js’ file is calledoptimer_regular.typeface.js and is 68.7kb. Including Cufón Or Typeface.Js In Your Website Cufon Stats: File size 14KB Supported Browsers: Firefox 1.5+, Safari 3+, Opera 9.5+, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer6+ NOW UNABLE IN IE9 BETA Supported File Types: .ttf, .otf, PFB, postscript Supported Font Styling: font-size, font-style, font-weight, line-height, text-shadow, color Pick a font even a written one www.cufonfonts.com ;)

Try holding the shift key with your pinky and press < with your pointer finger.

The JavaScript engine team members John Montgomery, Steve Lucco and Shanku Niyogi at Microsoft are getting my full condolences . Good thing is IE 9 is on the GPU using DirectX/D2D. Speeding up performance and setting the platform up for CSS transforms so I hope nothing went wrong here.

Yeah I hope that your right that there is a problem with the beta. I am sick of trying to find fixes in CSS over the years with IE crap they dish out. Lets hope they didnt change the standards. Anyone else having problems with IE9 beta?

The new beta IE9 comes out and whats else they mess up our site. Having no problems in IE8 or firfox or google chrome now thanks IE9 beta you POS! Here is the font script that connected the JS file thats getting blocked in IE9. We even tryed a new font style JS file and it also blocked that.... <script type="text/javascript" src="js/AvantGarde_Bk_BT_700.font.js"></script>