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Lawrence D'Oliveiro
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      10-17-2008
Finally, a cross-browser spec for including custom fonts in Web pages:
<http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/10/16/embedded-web-fonts>.
 
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Nik Coughlin
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      10-17-2008
"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <_zealand> wrote in message
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> Finally, a cross-browser spec for including custom fonts in Web pages:
> <http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/10/16/embedded-web-fonts>.


Interesting. Would be nice if everyone could support both ttf and otf and
possibly even svg fonts.

We have a method of sorts already:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalabl...sh_Replacement

Of course it's only any good for headings as the article above mentions,
using it for body text puts too much strain on the client machine.

 
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