On 19/12/2007, Christopher Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Never mind EOT, just emply a tasteful dollup of SiFR - > http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr for the uninitiated. Never mind all > that proprietary EOT stuff, (and whilst I don't actually loathe IE, I just > think it's a waste of a feature.) Bonus: cross-browser branded headers in > whatever font the BBC's using now, plus if they run a feature or something > else which has its own branding, they can slot it in. Bonus two: degrades > gracefully. Bonus three: understandable by screen readers. >
I have to say that Macromedia Flash is as propritary as EOT fonts! EOT doesn't require Flash installed and works on IE6, IE7 with Windows 95/98/ME/2K/2K3/Vista (ie 90%+ of users) and uses ClearType rendering when enabled. It will also degrade gracefully to another font and can be read by screen readers. Just a line in the old CSS file to get the font in your list, viz: [EMAIL PROTECTED] { font-family: TiresiasScreenfont; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; src: url(fonts/TIRESIA0.eot); } @font-face { font-family: "Neo Sans Light"; font-style: normal;font-weight: normal; src: url("fonts/NEOSANS2.eot"); }* And then just call the font by it's name... *H1 { font-family: "Neo Sans Light", Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;}* How easy is that? And the .EOT file is cached by the browser! > :) > > Also, why not (for Windows+IE users) use .EOT soft fonts? They are > really easy to do! > > http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/default.htm > > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv