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

[Jeremy Dunck]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:
> So, please tell me, how is
> making it easier for website designers to enforce their type on me a good
> thing?

Right now, people use sIFR or image replacement.  This is hard for a
viewer to change.  By moving to @font-face, the viewer can still win
because they can have an !important user stylesheet.  I'd argue that
@font-face ubiquity means the viewer haves more, not less, control.