2008/5/4 Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> 2008/5/4 Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > 2008/5/3 Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> 2008/5/3 Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > As they took their redundancy cheques, the leavers kept sobbing "but
> they
> > said no-one ever got fired for buying IBM..."
>
> Perhaps the recession will make businesses who pay too much for
> software licenses turn to free software solutions :-)
>
> >> Opera, PrinceXML and Safari support TrueType fonts via @font-face
> >> already - backstage developers ought to play with this important
> >> aspect of CSS3 :-)
> >
> > Can you?
>
> You can because CSS3 doesn't mandate a font file format, and those 3
> support plain TrueType fonts (and even ignore the DRM bits in TrueType
> - as does Microsoft Silverlight ;-) so you can just stick a TTF on a
> web server and add the @font-face stanza to your CSS file.


Do I still have to generate PNG versions for Firefox though?


>
>
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> Dave
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