Thanks for your post Richard. I get what you are saying about font licenses and I fully understand. The point of having a font accessible by the web would be that it wouldn't have to be installed natively on the machine ( gets rid of that performance hit) and of course you can't download the whole font only the subset of that font. Only the subset that you need and retain the subset like what your OS does with RAM most recently used gets to the top of the stack.
As for licenses, the reason that they let you use it in bitmaps is because it is not worth the effort to try to rip a font that way. So whatever measure you take getting that not standard font to the browser for rendering you have to lock it down so that it has similar security. People are going to steal something no matter what even if only for the challenge. As for the firewalls, I'm not sure where your going with that one. If the user requests the font it should come through just fine just like any other file. I am all for people getting money for their work. I hope I get time in the next month or so to get something working. Thanks for your suggestions and comments. If anyone else has any other road blocks or what ifs that's great. They make great requirements and I'm bound to no think of everything. Thanks, Nick On May 31, 2006, at 7:42 PM, Richard Grevers wrote: > For starters, the majority of fonts are copyright to the foundries > which created them and may not be distributed. The font we use for our > branding (Chalet-E) may look like a tweaked Helvetica, but we paid > $900 for a license and cannot distribute the font itself, only > outlines or bitmaps which use it. > > Even for more freely available fonts there is often supposed to be an > EULA to accept. > There are also issues such as: > 1) installing excessive numbers of fonts can seriously degrade the > performance of some Operating systems or render some applications > inoperable. > 2) Not all fonts are small: What if someone specifies Arial Unicode MS > and you are hit by a 13MB download (Ok, they are an idiot, and that is > a copyright violation as you need to have an MS Office license to use > that font). > 3) Firewalls are going to be a problem. > > > > -- > Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand > Hat 1: Development Engineer, Webfarm Ltd. > Hat 2: Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------- Nick Morgan | Web Developer | New City Media P: 540.552.1320 x204 F: 540.552.5493 C: 540.921.7835 W: www.newcitymedia.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
