Re: TECH: Fonts on the Web? (was Re: Kjaginic: 8 points of articulation)

> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Mark J. Reed
> You can embed fonts in web pages; but the mechanism for doing so has
> not been standardized, so it's not widely used.  Besides the technical
> issues, there are IP ones: Adobe doesn't want you to take one of their
> fonts that you have to pay for and put it someplace that anyone can
> download it - for free - automatically! - just by looking at your
> page.
>
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_fonts for a discussion.
> Currently, Safari and Internet Explorer support one mechanism (but
> require different font formats) and Firefox doesn't support it at all.
I'm glad this subject came up because I would like to get my site set up to push
out the Deini fonts. Right now all I have is a notice letting people know where
to download the font manually so they can view the Deini pages. Even if the
method isn't 100% compatible with all browsers, it's still better to make the
process automatic for some users. IE accounts for a majority anyway. Now I just
have to figure out how to make this work within Mediawiki.

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