<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><p>Downloading EOTs makes little sense to me. What use are they outside a browser?</p></blockquote></div><div>Just so you can put them on your own server. I mean, I think the OFLB is cool and all, but I don't want to rely on its uptime for my fonts. If my own server's down, so are the sites on it, so it doesn't increase downtime.</div><div><br></div><div>Am I wrong about how this works? You link to the .eot from the css as a file, right? And it can be anywhere?</div><div><br></div><div>-J</div><br><div><div>On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p>Hi,</p><p>Well yes, all other browsers support normal fonts, so that's a defacto standard. I don't see MS changing though, it must prop up the proprietary software culture quite hard as the weight of free software network effects streamroll it :)</p><p>Downloading EOTs makes little sense to me. What use are they outside a browser?</p><p>Regards, Dave</p><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><blockquote>On 1 Jul 2009, 4:27 PM, "Joshua A.C. Newman" <<a href="mailto:joshua@joshuanewmandesign.com">joshua@joshuanewmandesign.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><p><font color="#500050">> Well, IE did this in like 1996 so its not really true they decided to do something different;  </font></p><div>Yeah, I remember that this is an old thing. But now there <i>is</i> a standard.<div><br></div><div>But:</div><p><font color="#500050"> > 2009/7/1 ricardo lafuente <<a href="mailto:bollecs@sollec.org">bollecs@sollec.org</a>>: >> >> would it be too difficult/impractical to h...</font></p><div>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?</div><div> <br></div><font color="#888888"><div>-J</div><div><br></div></font><div><p><font color="#500050">On Jul 1, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > 2009/7/1 Joshua A.C. Newman <joshua@joshuanewm...</font></p><p><font color="#500050">Joshua Newman Design 401.225.7222 </font></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="text-align: right; "><a href="http://joshuanewmandesign.com/"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF5903">Joshua Newman Design</font></a></div><div style="text-align: right; ">401.225.7222</div></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>