- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:10:38 +0200
- To: "Levantovsky, Vladimir" <Vladimir.Levantovsky@MonotypeImaging.com>
- Cc: www-font@w3.org
Also sprach Levantovsky, Vladimir:
> > It's more likely that we will see a format war along the lines of
> > BlueRay/HD-DVD or EOT/TrueDoc. In these battles, there are no winners,
> > but many losers.
>
> I agree, with the only correction that we *are seeing* the format
> (or the browser) war right now
That's a fair point -- authors today have to provide dual formats to
reach both IE and the others.
However, it seems that EOT is not actively maintained -- neither on
the creator (WEFT) nor consumer (IE) side -- so it may fade out by
itself. There is no need for steamrollers.
> On the other hand, not doing anything as
> you proposed will only prolong this format war and pave the way for
> third-party solutions such as sIFR, Cufon and TypeKit.
>From reading the TypeKit blog [1], it seems they will use the CSS
syntax and provide automatic conversion to EOT. This seems like a
pragmatic, standards-based approach that will reach most users.
Without a new format.
[1] http://blog.typekit.com/
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
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Received on Monday, 29 June 2009 22:16:57 UTC