Re: TECH: Fonts on the Web? (was Re: Kjaginic: 8 points of articulation)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 2, 2008, 3:19 |
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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.
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