Adobe-Apple-Netscape ..

• From: Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org>
• Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 13:21:07 +0100
• To: jme@c-art.com (John_Eadie)
• Cc: www-font@w3.org
• Message-Id: <199603061221.NAA00042@www4.inria.fr>

John Eadie writes:

 > I'm new to this list and I wonder if someone could 
 > catch me up on what the Adobe-Apple-Netscape HTML font 
 > extensions announcment means.  Apparently the technology
 > will incorporate Type 1 / Truetype and also fit in 
 > with W3 style sheet designs.

I have linked this press release, along with the one from Microsoft,
from [1]. It seems that the two announcements complement each other,
and this is a good chance to work together to find a common font
solution for the web.

[1] http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Fonts/

Regards,

-h&kon

Hakon W Lie, W3C/INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France
http://www.w3.org/People/howcome  howcome@w3.org

Received on Wednesday, 6 March 1996 12:57:26 UTC