Hi, I was about to ask if anyone knew where one stands in terms of font embedding / font downloading. However, after going through the archives I came to the conclusion (please correct me if I'm wrong) that font embedding is just not viable.
The spec-correct @font [1] is poorly supported or, in most cases, inexistent. Another option is Microsoft's WEFT [2] which is only supported by IE (Win and Mac AFAIK). That said one should design with web-safe fonts [3] and adaptable layouts in mind. Chris Heilmann put it best [4]: "If you want to embed your font (...) there is no surefire way to download a font on the fly." We are left with image-replacement techniques [5] such as sIFR [6, 7, 8, 9] . However, these add some other undesired problems [10]. Hope this helps everyone. AD 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#font-descriptions 2. www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/ 3. http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/ 4. http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/63791 5. http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/revised-image-replacement/ 6. http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/ 7. http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/sifr 8. http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/12/sifr-2.0-release-candidate-3 9. http://usabletype.com/articles/2004/how-and-when-to-use-sifr/ 10. http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/10/26/sifr/ Relevant results from the archives: font-family choices + http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/568 embedded fonts + http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/3761 web fonts using CSS2 + http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/7110 embed or not embed that is the question + http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/15760 Font embedding + http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/16272 font lovin' + http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/47532 @font-face (was font lovin' and font pushing) + http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/47545 Fonts + http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/57873 download fonts + http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/63761 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.adrianocastro.net ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/