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Web Open Font Format backed by Mozilla, type foundries (ars technica)Web Open Font Format backed by Mozilla, type foundries (ars technica)Posted Nov 2, 2009 21:35 UTC (Mon) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)In reply to: Web Open Font Format backed by Mozilla, type foundries (ars technica) by johill Parent article: Web Open Font Format backed by Mozilla, type foundries (ars technica)
People would still need the non-woff copy for normal apps (inkscape, openoffice.org, etc). Using woff is like bastarizing theora or vorbis in the hope a different web-only version of them you can't use in a normal video player would be more palatable to MS and the RIAA.
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Web Open Font Format backed by Mozilla, type foundries (ars technica) Posted Nov 2, 2009 21:48 UTC (Mon) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link]
Right, but at least not multiple woff copies.
Web Open Font Format backed by Mozilla, type foundries (ars technica) Posted Nov 2, 2009 22:02 UTC (Mon) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]
Except the woff copies are not needed at all. Using the .ttf/.otf files in @font-face with work just as well (as long as you use a deflate-aware web server such as apache)
And when you don't do funny conversion/renaming tricks on font files the browser can actually notice it's already available on-system and use the system version
Web Open Font Format backed by Mozilla, type foundries (ars technica) Posted Nov 3, 2009 7:04 UTC (Tue) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link]
I realise that, but as you pointed out many people who will end up using them will not. Since educating them all seems a lost cause due to all the "tutorials" that already exist (I haven't checked, just going from what has been said here) it just seemed to me that it'd be good to, in effect, standardise that renaming.
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