- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:31:09 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
> I am sure there are good reasons for removing @font-face [2] > from CSS 2.1 font capabilities. [1]. I think that is because it fails the "two interoperable implementations" rule. IE and Netscape didn't share a common font format. (Note the problem with creating a font format is not describing the font, but enforcing intellectual property rules. Microsoft's implementation locked the font to a particular URL.) > I have a concern that this impacts users of minority languages more than > others. I don't think there is much awareness of the feature even in such communities. The only example I've seen was a Symbol font hack (misrepresenting ISO 8859/1 characters as glyphs for something else) for Telugu. (That was on an explicit search for font-embedding - something that produced few hits at the time.) None of the Western academic sites for Chinese use them, even though people are quite likely not to have the fonts.
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