- From: Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:42:29 +0000
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 19:38, Chris Lilley wrote: | On Friday, February 01, 2002, 12:43:16 AM, Kynn wrote: | | KB> Anyone got a good reference on which browsers support downloadable | KB> fonts as per the CSS level 2 specification? | I apologize in advance for asking, but: Does it makes sense to add (or unify) support for CSS2 Fonts, when CSS3 specification is already in progress? Chris Lilley, I guess you mentioned Panose. But, many computer graphics/fonts experts recognized that panose is not very good for doing font identification. My personal opinion on font identification: HStem/VStem values are much better than Panose. But, frankly speaking, I am not aware about any browser implementation supporting HStem/VStem properties in CSS. i | The term for such support is WebFonts. The following I am aware of, | additions welcomed: | | Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows, version 4+ | - formats supported: weft (.eot) | | Microsoft Internet Explorer for mac, version 5+ (I believe - please | confirm) - formats supported: weft (.eot) | | Adobe SVG Viewer, version 2 | - formats supported: cef (.cef) | | Adobe SVG Viewer, version 3+ | - formats supported: svg (.svg, .svgz), cef (.cef) | | CSIRO SVG Java toolkit, versions in the last 18 months | - formats supported: svg (.svg, .svgz) | | Batik SVG toolkit | - formats supported: svg (.svg, .svgz) | | XSmiles multi-namespace SVG browser | - formats supported: svg (.svg, .svgz) | And all of them are non-standard fonts... In addition AFAIK SVG fonts do not have any hints, and there is no SVG implementation which has auto-hinting capability. [and, without hints, fonts are not suitable to be displayed at low-res, less than 300dpi, devices] I just wonder if someone created a browser (User Agent) which can support normal TrueType (.tff) or PS Type1 (.pfb) fonts? Typical scenario: you click on page, browser downloads TTF font, installs it, and page can be displayed with best-to-view font. -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/
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