RE: Web Fonts

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Paul Nelson (ATC) wrote:
> >
> > No more than for the <img> element. Probably significantly fewer 
> > concerns, if we ignore the name altogether... (it's hard to say that 
> > you're confusing the meaning of a trademark if you don't use it at 
> > all!)
> 
> I suppose if one uses AddFontMemResourceEx() on the Windows platform the 
> handle to the font can be cached.
> 
> Of course all other GDI functions to CreateFont, etc. will take a 
> logfont structure that needs the facename to access the right font.
> 
> I believe that some more recent OSes like from Apple allow the font to 
> be installed from anywhere. However, one cannot assume that an OS will 
> not need the name of the font to use it. Maybe David can share what 
> Apple does.

By the time the font is being installed, the UA has access to the name -- 
it's the name in the font file.

-- 
Ian Hickson               U+1047E                )\._.,--....,'``.    fL
http://ln.hixie.ch/       U+263A                /,   _.. \   _\  ;`._ ,.
Things that are impossible just take longer.   `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Received on Thursday, 24 August 2006 23:36:29 UTC