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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 3, 2009 7:02 UTC (Tue) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: Web Open Font Format backed by Mozilla, type foundries (ars technica) by nim-nim
Parent article: Web Open Font Format backed by Mozilla, type foundries (ars technica)

(I used info because this is what you mean by content, except code vs content is a terminology that confuses concepts and tends to imply the tools used to render info are produced by coders only)

Video could have been treated just like fonts: just define a platform-neutral bytecode format (with sandboxing browser-side to avoid security problems), and html/css code so sites can point browsers to a codec blob in this format server-side.

Doesn't look too palatable isn't it? Well @font-face is nothing else.


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