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Thread #126967 Message #2826481
Posted By: Bill D
31-Jan-10 - 12:38 PM
Thread Name: Tech: paging John in Kansas re: font support
Subject: Tech: paging John in Kansas re: font support
John..(or anyone else who understands...Max?)
I had hear for years about plans to make a variety of fonts available for use that would not depend on what you had installed.
Now I find pages such as this
and this one
which show how it is possible to designate fonts for display that you do NOT have installed, but which will be downloaded by the browser for, I gather, temporary use.
One of those pages says that "either Firefox or IE is supported", but the other notes that "Opera intends to support it in version 10"....and indeed, I am viewing those pages in Opera 10.10, and I do see fonts actually displayed that are not just 'images'.
Now...my question: Does this depend totally on the website designing it's display and configuration (style sheets?) so the the webmaster can do clever things with fonts within the actual site?
Or...(and here is the crux of the question).. is there any way that, within the Mudcat forum for example, a poster could specify a font, like we do now for the limited number of fairly universal installed fonts? Or is this even theoretically possible with this new @fontface trick?
Would Max have to configure things? And would he be the only one who could use the system?
I suspect I know the answer, but a knife to cut thru the jargon would be nice.