- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 12:52:00 -0800
- To: "Chris Lilley" <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: <www-html@w3.org>, <chris@w3.org>
Chris Lilley wrote: > I wrote: > > and best if it were also a generalized solution that was neither > > exclusively CSS nor CSS-excluding. > > The proposed solution does indeed build onto CSS1. Can you explain > more what you mean by this sentence? Once loaded, fonts should be accessible without regard to method of loading, so that if 'web-font' were a downloaded font, even FONT FACE="web-font" would still render in the font. Given Netscape's past record of ad hoc tag invention, I worried that there would be some very focussed font load/specify solution that couldn't evolve and would require a new mechanism if, say, DSSSL were supported later. I took another look at the Netscape press release and noticed the line "new Web font technology will be usable by style sheet designs," which I missed on first scan. David Perrell
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