RE: WebFonts ready for use

Based on discussions with font developers who are up to speed on the technology, they view this as a threat that they intend to treat like any other public posting of their IP to the Web. So they will deal with each occurrence the old fashioned way with cease and desist notices. A few non-traditional font makers see the possibility of a "market" for Web fonts, but no one really has any concrete ideas on a business model.

The main concern voiced is "casual piracy" where the average person simply uses or has fonts installed by web pages without realizing that the UA was just being "helpful".




-----Original Message-----
From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Håkon Wium Lie
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 12:23 AM
To: www-style@w3.org
Subject: WebFonts ready for use


I'm happy to see the discussions on WebFonts. I also think it's
important that people on this list start playing with WebFonts. There
are now three implementations that allow you to use common font
formats with WebFonts:

  http://www.apple.com/safari/
  http://www.princexml.com/
  http://labs.opera.com/news/2008/03/28/

Here are some more pages that use WebFonts:

  http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2008/webfonts/
  http://www.princexml.com/samples/
  http://people.opera.com/howcome/2008/ooxml/iso.html
  http://people.opera.com/howcome/2008/ooxml/iso.pdf

Cheers,

-h&kon
              Håkon Wium Lie                          CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com                  http://people.opera.com/howcome

Received on Monday, 21 April 2008 23:40:54 UTC