- From: Paul Nelson (ATC) <paulnel@winse.microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:01:04 -0800
- To: Brad Kemper <brkemper@comcast.net>, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- CC: W3C Emailing list for WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>
Some font licenses do not allow the fonts to be placed in raw format on the web, but do allow them to be embedded/tied to web pages in .EOT format. If people only want free fonts, then they don't have to worry about using a lot of high quality commercial fonts that would otherwise be available. Paul -----Original Message----- From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Brad Kemper Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 2:39 PM To: Jukka K. Korpela Cc: W3C Emailing list for WWW Style Subject: Re: W3C CSS Home Redesign RFC The Webkit nightlies can embed TTFs. On Nov 20, 2007, at 10:11 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > > Paul Nelson (ATC) wrote: > >> Calibri is available only on Vista. > > Not correct. I'm currently using it on XP. > >> However, it could be made into an >> .EOT at the root of W3C's site (e.g. http://www.w3.org) and work >> well...if other than Microsoft will implement .EOT support. > > Oink oink flap flap. > > There's no point in even mentioning .EOT in discussions on > practical web > design these days; .EOT is useful for trivial demonstrations only. > > In practice, the prime question in font choices is: which specific > fonts, among those with more than, say, 20% coverage do you choose, in > which order do you put them, and can you really be sure that each and > every of them works reasonably for your pages? Having solved this, you > _might_ consider and which less common fonts you might add before > them. > > Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca") > http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ > >
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