[OpenFontLibrary] @font-face, is it really needed for font preview?

[Egil Möller]

Quite a few webbrowsers used today seems to support SVG images. Maybe
rendering the preview to SVG (curves) would work?

Khaled Hosny wrote:
> The new OFLB website uses @font-face CSS property for font preview, but
> I wonder if we really need it? Most browsers don't support it, even with
> the release of Firefox 3.1 we still have around 70% of web users with
> browsers that don't support it. Even if we put this aside, why I need to
> download a several megabits font just to get a static preview of it, it
> isn't even dynamic, what is the benefit (some Arabic or CJK fonts are
> even larger). Don't get me wrong, I find @font-face very great feature,
> but I think we are misusing it here.
>
> I think generating server side previews gives more better and responsive
> user experience, I think "font playground" already does this, just we
> need to merge it into the "main body" of the page instead of the current
> hidden (and annoying) separate popup (or whatever it is called).
>
> Regards,
>  Khaled
>
>   


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