[OpenFontLibrary] Firefox 3.5 showing off @font-face prominently

[Dave Crossland]

2009/6/17 Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>:
>
> The mozilla blog that was posted promoted css patterns with @font-face
> with yet other ways to make people miserable (decide you want Helvetica
> Neue, admit it's not available everywhere, link through @font-face a
> mgopen file instead, but not tell the navigator the mgopen is ok so
> systems that have mgopen installed or know how to substitute it get to
> download the web ttf inconditionally)

Yes, establishing 'norms' of @font-face usage is important and starts
now; I hope that our CSS "copy and paste" snippets will be 'best of
breed.'

> I'm not impressed but then I'm about the only person on this list who
> never believed in @font-face world-saving powers in the first place.

What would you have instead? :-)