EOT (stands for Embedded Object Type) was an attempt to define a
standard font format back in the era of v.4 browsers. I had to dig
across long forgotten code to retrieve these snippets:
@font-face { font-family: myfont; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; src: url(fontname.eot); }
body { font-family: myfont, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; }
It only worked in IE. You had to use Microsoft's WEFT to convert a font
into .eot (using a sample page, because it always wanted to rewrite all
your files itself). No matter what the webpage at
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/ says, the
latest version of WEFT was 5.3.2 and you had to register into
Microsoft's VOLT Community to obtain it.
A word of caution: when converting to .eot you had to explicitly list
the web adresses where the font was to be used (kind of rudimentary
DRM), so your downloaded .eot might work fine when testing from disk
(because the original developer would have listed 'file:///c:\' as a
valid source for testing) but fail to embed when called from your
webserver. As far as I can remember there was no way to put * into the
domain list...
At the same time there was a (commercial) tool to do the same in NN4, I
believe it was called Webfont Master by Bitstream. This software has
vanished from Bitstream's website long ago. The produced format (can't
remember what it was called) was purportedly compatible with IE(4) too.
sIFR really seems as a more sensible solution overall (if only I could
make it work with ems...)
djn
>> It would be a great help to get that CSS code, the file is named
>> Dirtyego.eot and comes from dafont.com (dorry for spam)
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