[OpenFontLibrary] Firefox 3.5 is out!

[Joshua A.C. Newman]

> Well, IE did this in like 1996 so its not really true they decided  
> to do something different;

Yeah, I remember that this is an old thing. But now there is a standard.

But:

> 2009/7/1 ricardo lafuente <bollecs at sollec.org>:
>> would it be too difficult/impractical to have this run on a font  
>> submitted
>> to the OFLB and generate the .eot on demand?
>
> That's the plan; actually, the ideal plan would be to have a mod_eot
> Apache module so that when it saw IE coming, it did a cached
> conversion on the fly so web designers don't have to think about it.

That's the hot hotness. But doesn't that only work for linking to  
those fonts? Would it work to generate EOTs for download as well?

-J

On Jul 1, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:

> 2009/7/1 Joshua A.C. Newman <joshua at joshuanewmandesign.com>:
>> Oh, I'm not blaming Google or the engineer at all. I think it's  
>> cool someone
>> picked up the project. It's the fact that we have to do any of it  
>> that
>> chafes. There's a standard. Microsoft has decided instead to do  
>> something
>> that is more difficult,
>
> Well, IE did this in like 1996 so its not really true they decided to
> do something different; back then Netscape had its own font DRM system
> (from Bitstream, also a USA patent holder for web fonts...) and plain
> TTF/OTF fonts were never considered.
>
> Reading www-font at w3.org archives from ~15 years ago was very
> interesting for me. ;-)

Joshua Newman Design
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