[OpenFontLibrary] What's the big deal about @font-face anyway?

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 05/29/2009 10:57 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote:

> Of course, there are also i18n reasons to supply a font -- if you're
> writing in a script that has poor support on major platforms, you no
> longer have to decide between text-in-images or telling people to
> install a font.

This made me smile.  It was just ten years ago when I was writing PHP code to 
generate images from text because Netscape didn't support Arabic / Persian. 
Then I figured that the bidi handling is more complex than I had thought. 
UAX#9, FriBidi, ... the rest is history as they say.  :)

behdad