- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 01:05:46 +0200
- To: "Marcus E. Hennecke" <marcush@crc.ricoh.com>
- CC: www-html@w3.org, slaniel@together.net
Marcus E. Hennecke wrote: > On Mon, 05 Aug 1996 20:07:38 -0400, "Stephen R. Laniel" <slaniel@together.net> wrote: > > In Microsoft Word (and, I presume, other word processing programs), it is > > possible to embed fonts in the document -- that is, to send the font with > > the text, so that it will render correctly on systems that don't have the > > correct font. > > > > Might this be possible in HTML? Coming soon to a browser near you. Yes, it will be possible to have fonts hanging off a URL just like you can have images, sounds, movies and such hanging off URLs right now. W3C is working on this right now. > > Of course, it would be necessary to standardize on one font format. On the contrary, we plan to be open to any font format. The browsers will use MIME types to specify what sort of formats they want. > > But this wouldn't add very much to tag bloat, and could be very useful. Has > > the idea already been proposed as part of CSS? Yes. Referencing the fonts in CSS rather than in HTML also has the advantage that there can be different style sheets for different media - one for on-screen presentation, one for a very compact sumary presentation, one for printing and one for speech synthesis, say - and the various fonts required are only referenced in the appropriate stylesheet rather than bulking up the HTML. > You may be interested in this: > > http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Fonts/ I really must update that document ... thanks for reminding me ;-) In the mean time, have a look at http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Fonts/Activity.html -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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