Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 12/08/07 10:57

Scripsit Gyps:

> I'm sorry - this has probably been discussed before, but I didn't
> find it:

Try smarter. Consulting FAQs is not a bad idea. Or maybe
http://groups.google.com/advanced_search with group restricted to
alt.html and using imaginative search words like
fonts server

> I wonder whether there is a way to make a browser use fonts from a
> server instead of the installed system-fonts. Since this is such an
> obvious feature I cannot believe it has never been implemented in
> html/css ?

It would obviously help many authors to make their pages even worse
crap, that's for sure.

The technique is called WEFT (IE-only, and works only if permitted by IE
settings), and despite repeated requests, its proponents have not been
able to present a single real-life example of its use. "Real-life" means
anything but pages that have been contrived to demonstrate the
technique, using dummy content or content that babbles about WEFT.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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