- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 16:00:29 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
- To: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
David Perrell wrote: > Another significant greater-than-fluff is: > > "Web fonts. ... In addition, pages using a particular font will > be able > to temporarily download that font with the page so it can be viewed > with the exact font the designer desired. Because the fonts are either > those shipping with Navigator or downloaded to it, this eliminates the > limitation of the Font Face tag, which can display a font only if it > finds it on the user's system." > > The only worrisome thing is the wording regarding the Font Face tag. Font face is clearly being deprecated here, and rightly so. > I > hope the downloaded font urls will be declared in the document head so > that such fonts can be used transparently by both stylesheets and > inline font tags. On the contrary, I would expect the font urls and other font information to be in the stylesheet, which might be in a separate document or might be inside a style element. >If this is going to require some ridiculous new tag > or tag attribute then better to not do it at all. Agreed. -- 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 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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