- From: Afternoon <afternoon@uk2.net>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 21:03:14 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
In addition, the user may not now how to install a font, or may only be passing through. I don't read Japanese, but I like to see Japanese sites rendered correctly. I didn't go to the trouble of installing the font packs when I used Windows, but now that my OS X machine has them, I'm happy. Ben On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 08:57 PM, bzbarsky@mit.edu wrote: > > Quoting Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>: > >> If a person wants to read Georgian and runs Mac OS X, why >> wouldn't (s)he install a suitable font instead of relying on Web sites >> to provide fonts via @font-face? > > Because this person is a tourist in a cybercafe in London, wants to > check on the > news back home, and has neither permissions nor knowledge to install > fonts on > that machine. > > Because this person is a student in a university computer lab doing > research on > Gergian literature and has neither permissions nor knowledge to > install fonts on > that machine. > > In short, because people move around, don't always use the same > computer, and > often use computers they have no control over. > > -Boris > > (q) Ben Godfrey? (a) Web Developer and Designer See http://aftnn.org/ for details
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