Re: The Next Big Thing

Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com> wrote:

>Alistapart has just publihed an article that describes the potential
>of web fonts in combination with TrueType.
>
>  http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssatten
>
>It also contains a small proposal for using media queries to check for
>web fonts support:
>
>  h1 { 
>     font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;  
>     letter-spacing: 0.1em; 
>  }
>
>  @media all and (web-fonts: "truetype") {
>    h1 { 
>      font-family: "Primer Apples", sans-serif;  
>      letter-spacing: 0.2em; 
>    }
>  }

Forgive my lack of knowledge on this issue, does the proposed method
allow users to disable web fonts through a user stylesheet which then
also results in a media query for web fonts to report no support?

-- 
Spartanicus

Received on Sunday, 2 September 2007 07:43:47 UTC