[OpenFontLibrary] Firefox 3.5 is out!

[Joshua A.C. Newman]

Interesting! Thanks! I didn't realize their implementation was  
actually to spec.

-J



On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 11:27 -0400, Joshua A.C. Newman wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I remember that this is an old thing. But now there is a
>> standard.
>
> It depends on what you mean by a standard...
>
> MS IE *does* implement the Web Fonts standard as published
> by W3C; there's no requirement for a specific font format,
> and if there had been, it might well have been PostScript
> Type 1 at the time, since TrueType was patent-encumbered.
> Or it might have been the SVG font format, with no hinting,
> and very limited metadata...
>
> There's no problem with serving up Libre fonts with EOT,
> and Microsoft and Agfa-Monotype have released the details
> of the format, making the GPL implementation possible.
>
> There is, of course, a problem in serving non-Free fonts
> (including most shareware fonts) as plain TrueType/otf files,
> which is that the terms of usage don't generally permit it.
>
> We'll see changes in that area soon, I'm sure, but I think
> in this case it's a little unfair to blame Microsoft for
> supporting downladable fonts on the Web.  There are still
> lots of other things where you can blame Microsoft, so don't
> worry, just let this one go :-)
>
> Liam
>
>
>
>
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