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Re: Next step?

From: Chris Fynn <cfynn@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:43:38 +0600
Message-ID: <4AE07DAA.4030209@gmx.net>
To: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
  1) OpenType
  2) EOTLite (CWT)
  3) WOFF
  4) SVG

Is any browser vendor actually planning to support rendering ordinary 
HTML documents with CSS using SVG fonts? If not, it seems to me that 
practically speaking we are only discussing 3 formats here not 4.

MSIE it seems is never going to support raw OpenType / TrueType. So, for 
"interoperability", we are left with EOTLite (CWT) - which could provide 
an OK solution for today as well as backwards compatibility for all the 
IE 6, 7 & 8 users still out there, and WOFF to provide the better 
solution for tomorrow.

- Chris
Received on Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:44:20 GMT

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