- From: Chris Ridd <C.Ridd@imc.exec.nhs.uk>
- Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 15:47:25 +0000
- To: Dave Carter <dxc@ast.cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
Dave Carter wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Chris Lilley wrote: > > > David Perrell wrote: > > > > > > Chris Wilson (PSD) wrote: > > > > Actually, there is a font working group within the W3C who have been > > > > developing a method for embedding fonts in Web pages using Cascading > > > > Style Sheets (CSS) syntax - I believe the proposal was jointly > > > > developed by Microsoft and Adobe. > > > > How will this work across platforms??? Surely font formats for different > platforms are completely different?? Or will they be generated by > something like TeX Metafont? Yes, bitmap font formats are usually completely different on different platforms, however there are a few outline formats - TrueType, Type 1, and OpenType - which are *reasonably* cross-platform. Hopefully source code for renderers is going to be given away as part of the standardising deal. Chris
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