Re: EOT Lite (Compatibility Web Type) - sample web pages

On 7 Sep 2009, at 23:45, Bill Davis wrote:

> We made a variety of web pages to demonstrate EOT Lite fonts in  
> action. They showcase simple headline fonts, extended font families  
> and fonts with larger character sets.
>
> http://www.ascendercorp.com/web/web-font-examples/
>
> The pages can be viewed in Internet Explorer and the Firefox  
> minefield version that Jonathan Kew posted a few weeks ago (but the  
> download link does not appear to be active).

Sorry, Mozilla "try-server" builds expire after two weeks, so this is  
no longer online.

>
> I know some folks have noted issues/challenges with formatting font  
> families in IE – not sure if our approach is ‘correct’ but it  
> appears to work fine in our testing. We made it easy to preview the  
> code. Look forward to comments from you all.
>

I took a quick look at the "Mayberry" page (sample 3), and I notice  
that the "preview" code displayed on the page does not in fact  
correspond to the CSS that is actually used for the extended family.  
For the latter 4 faces, the CSS actually uses separate family names,  
rather than using the true family name and relying on the descriptor  
values to identify the proper faces. Is this an oversight, or was it a  
hack that turned out to be necessary in order to get the desired  
rendering?

JK

Received on Tuesday, 8 September 2009 16:57:21 UTC