RE: Embedding fonts from Chris Wilson on 1998-05-12 (www-style@w3.org from May 1998)

From: Chris Wilson <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 17:40:40 -0700
To: "'Todd Fahrner'" <fahrner@pobox.com>, www-style@w3.org
Cc: www-font@w3.org
Message-ID: <C35556591D34D111BB5600805F1961B90508FFD6@red-msg-47.dns.microsoft.com>

> Todd Fahrner [SMTP:fahrner@pobox.com] wrote:
>" >Unfortunately, Netscape (the TrueDoc implementor) doesn't implement
enough
>" >CSS to let you embed fonts through CSS. You still have to muck around in
>" >the HTML, against the recommendations of the HTML 4.0 Specification.
>" 
>" Is this really against the recommendation of the HTML4 spec?  It's a bit
of
>" a hack, to be sure, but they just use a META tag, which I don't think is
>" very strenuously defined in HTML 4.0.
>
>They use LINK with the invalid SRC attribute.

Right you are.  My (faulty) memory was that they used the META element.

-Chris

Received on Monday, 11 May 1998 20:40:45 UTC