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

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 05/29/2009 12:16 PM, Christopher Fynn wrote:
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> Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
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> ...
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>> But I think for many people @font-face will be a great enabler: they
>> will have a much nicer solution for publishing content on the web (or
>> platforms using web-technologies) via open standards and have to worry
>> about pictures and problematic encodings to represent text.
>
> There will still be lots of problems for quite a while - e.g. there are
> fonts that work on the PC and Linux versions of Firefox, but not on the
> Mac version; the support for OpenType is very different on PC & Mac,
> which is a real issue for non-Latin scripts.

This will change hopefully by the end of the year.  Firefox plans to use 
HarfBuzz on all platforms.

behdad

> - Chris