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Posted by Gιrard Talbot on 01/19/64 11:35
Alan J. Flavell a Γ©crit :
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Andy Dingley wrote:
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>
>>On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:03:10 +0000, Jake <jake@gododdin.demon.co.uk>
>>wrote:
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>>>And, of course, you'll never let us in on these 'problems' you claim
>>>exist or how the use of embedded fonts is 'impractical'... ;-)
>>
>>Doesn't work outside IE/Win. Bit of a biggy that one.
>
>
> However, WinIE is the browser which is most in need of being
> helped-out by this technology, so the arguments do even out to some
> extent.
>
>
>>Secondly there have been a few fonts I've really wanted to do this
>>with (corporate branding issues), sometimes a font or glyph that was
>>created specifically for that customer, and in every case WEFT has
>>had problems in making that particular font work on any platform.
>
>
> I have to say that my only dealings with WEFT3 were to compensate for
> WinMSIE's execrable support for unusual character repertoires.
I agree that WEFT3 could be improved.
To
> that extent, they were successful, and I was hoping to write some web
> pages on the successful results. But I haven't had time yet.
> Meantime, interested readers
One small comment I wish to make. Most of the time, interested people in
embedded (dynamic/synthetic) webfonts are interested in them for purely
cosmetic reason, for aesthetic reasons or for over-excessively
controlling purposes (controlling entirely how a webpage appear on the
user/visitor's monitor screen). I think web fonts can make a difference
in cases of cultural assimilation, where languages which are absent on
the web, for societies which are in the process of disappearing due to
absolute pure human/capitalist stupidity/idiocy and climate changes. And
even there, a .gif image saying "please download this truly Unicode font
in order to read webpages written in your native language" can
conveniently replace/compensate the recourse to webfonts.
could consult the discussion which
> includes this posting
>
> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design/msg/2f48e144a18a19ea
>
> Hope that's vaguely useful. I think the best test pages
.... which are:
http://www.gtalbot.org/DHTMLSection/AboriginalSansDemo.html
http://www.gtalbot.org/DHTMLSection/AboriginalSerifDemo.html
http://www.gtalbot.org/DHTMLSection/PigiarniqSerifDemo.html
right now are
> the ones cited by the other main participant in that thread, GΓ©rard
> Talbot.
Hello Alan :)
Btw, Best wishes to you and your loves ones for Christmas :)
GΓ©rard
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