I’d like to start embedding fonts for my website but have found out that of the two competing standards, the one from bitstream has died out and the one from microsoft only works in IE. Is there any way to use css or anything else to get the fonts i want onto a website and have it supported in IE and Firefox/Mozilla? Since i can’t find any documentation, does Firefox or the newest Mozilla support embedded fonts of any type?
No.
Seriously, just use the default deprecations in CSS, eg,
font-family: geneva, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;
Netscape (back in the halcyon days) attempted to do something similar, but it pretty much fell on its ass.
In my case, installing a new font on my system requires root permissions (or at least my own user PW) to run mkftdir and reset Xfs, so nothing you tried would work transparently.
If having identical fonts across every platform is that much of an issue, you’re pretty much stuck with using PDFs for everything.
I ran in to the same kind of frustration in my early web design diddling days, but I ended up realizing that I’d be a lot better off making it look good in every browser I could, but not identical. Saved me a lot of pain.
One of the best things about Linux is never having to bother to delete Comic Sans…
Thanks. I suspected as much. Most of the websites on the subject are about 3-4 years old, so this seems to be a feature everyone gave up on. One of the biggest con arguements back in the day was that it took up bandwidth, but these days i can’t see as many people complaining about a 25k eot file attached to a website. I guess the biggest hurdle is still root access, and how to do so without opening a big ol’ security hole. I’m just tired of the same 4 fonts over and over again and wanted look different. I’d hate to use WEFT because I don’t even use IE myself. But i just might have to…
Use a .gif file?
::d&r::