- From: by way of Martin Duerst <Tim.Foster@Sun.COM>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 14:08:29 -0400
- To: www-international@w3.org
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 17:44, Russ Rolfe wrote: > So with WEFT, you are assured that if the fonts you need are not on > the viewers system that they will be loaded when they visit your page. ... assuming all your site visitors are using Microsoft Internet Explorer. None of the demo pages at http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/default.htm appear correctly in Mozilla Firebird 0.6 running on Solaris 9 for example [ though they do mention that those demos are IE specific ] Mozilla Firebird will happily display Arabic, Cyrillic and Hebrew text quite well from a Unicode web page such as : http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/ on my platform, at least, without using any non-standard extensions. As Michael Jansson correctly pointed out in his comprehensive mail earlier on this thread, Unicode support varies by platform, so it's a question of how much you're willing to limit your audience to a particular platform (or release) to make your life as a web-designer easier. You may find more useful stuff at : http://developers.sun.com/dev/gadc/faq/web.html http://www.mozilla.org/projects/intl/ Finally, you might also want to consider section 508 compliance before choosing any method for displaying text, as it could impact how accessible your web site is. cheers, tim -- Tim Foster - Translation Technology Engineer, CNP eProductization, Sun Microsystems Inc.
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