Definitely something to work on after Firefox 3 ships. There are *lots* of issues here, some technical and some legal (oh, let the fun begin...). But the first step is to get a working implementation of downloadable TTF fonts working and see what issues it brings up. The key is whether this can be done in a secure way.
Cheers, John Daggett Mozilla Japan ----- Original Message ----- From: "David E. Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 6, 2008 9:43:12 AM GMT +09:00 Japan Subject: Re: CSS Font Embedding On 4/5/2008 9:08 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi! > > I'm very excited by the great possibilities of the "CSS Font > Embedding" feature that has made its way into WebKit and, as of the > 3.1 release last month, Safari. > > Could anyone give an estimate to how long it might be until this makes > its way into Gecko 1.9+? :-) > > I have money to pay for a bounty on this feature if that would help > get it implemented in Gecko sooner :-) > > Cheers, > Dave See the following bugs: #35614 at <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35614> #52746 at <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52746> #70132 at <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70132> There are at least two areas of concern that seem to be delaying implementation. First, there is the concern about the liability to the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation if a font is embedded in a Web page when the font's license does not permit remote embedding. Then, there is the fact that W3C's CSS Working Group has not yet resolved certain issues relating to its Web Fonts specification. For example, there seems to be a dispute as to whether all font files will be allowed or only .eot files. With limited resources, the Mozilla organizations need to be careful about putting effort into implementing something that will then have to be revised. Finally, <http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/res_fonts.htm> reported just a month ago that only Safari has an "open" implementation of Web fonts. Opera has an implementation but only in an unreleased version. IE has a proprietary implementation using Micro$oft's Web Embedding Fonts Tool (WEFT); WEFT runs on Windows (and perhaps Macs emulating PCs) to build non-standard font files for embedding in Web pages that are viewed by IE but not necessarily by any other browser. When it was the leading browser, Netscape 4 had an implementation that was quite different from IE's, which meant a page's Web fonts would work either with Netscape or with IE but not both -- demonstrating why it may be important to wait until the CSS Working Group resolves its issues. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. _______________________________________________ dev-tech-layout mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-layout _______________________________________________ dev-tech-layout mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-layout
