Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] web fonts

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 19:18:44 -0700, Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Anyone remember a cross-platform way to package a site's fonts into the
> page in cases where the user hasn't got that font installed already? I
> was thinking it was either a link tag or css but I can't remember.

This is not guaranteed to work, alas.  The idea is to use CSS to
declare the @font-face and a down-load source.  The problem is that
not all user agents do this, and, even if they do, it could take a
very long time since fonts can be huge and without a font to draw
text, your browser is just spinning the throbber without rendering
until it gets the whole thing or the request times out.

But the textbook example would be:

@font-face {font-family: "Mogmios Ultra";
          src: url(http://www.kavlon.org/fonts/ps/mogmios_ultra.ps);}

If it were me, I think I'd still just rely on the usual font-family
cascade unless it's something absolutely essential, like you need to
display a foreign script or something.

Hope this helps.

jking
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