[OpenFontLibrary] @font-face rules on the listings page: new OFLB

[James Weiner]

Perhaps a menu to pick which weight/style you want the code for, which  
after selection displays the code?

James

On 29 Apr 2009, at 21:27, Ben Weiner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Quite a lot of the typefaces we currently host on OFLB have only one  
> weight, but some have many: regular, italic, bold and bold italic  
> for example.
>
> On the listings page (http://openfontlibrary.fontly.org/files) we've  
> provided a link (perhaps confusingly labelled 'link', short for  
> 'font-link to your html') that you can click, if you have  
> Javascript, to display a sample @font-face CSS rule set for each  
> typeface (I have in fact temporarily disabled the feature for a  
> different reason).
>
> The CSS was originally coded up to display only one rule - the one  
> for the first weight of the typeface. I think that is a bit  
> pointless and we should provide the full set. But I also think this  
> may make the page slow to render and for little benefit. Each  
> typeface record page provides the full ruleset. So should we remove  
> rulesets from the listings page?
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>
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>


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