Posted by jake on 05/29/05 11:36

In message <MPG.1d030854aadc21459896e1@news.eclipse.net.uk>, Hywel
Jenkins <hywel.jenkins@gmail.com> writes
>In article <xhvqkdNHdYlCFw$F@gododdin.demon.co.uk>,
>jake@gododdin.demon.co.uk says...
>> In message <Xns9661F21D66C3Farbpenyahoocom@207.115.63.158>, Adrienne
>> <arbpen2003@sbcglobal.net> writes
>> >Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "the idiot"
>> ><sinatra@thesands.co.uk> writing in
>> >news:TD6dnb_l2KCF8QjfSa8jmA@karoo.co.uk:
>> >
>> >> a freind was asking if it is okay to embed a font on a website he was
>> >> doing...
>> >> i told him i didnt think it was right to do that but that i had no idea
>> >> why.
>> >>
>> >> is it wrong / ok?
>> >>
>> >> and why?
>> >> thank you
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >If the user has the font on their system, then they will see that font.
>> >Embedding fonts in web pages works for some browsers some of the time.
>>
>> No. It works for (PC) IE users all of the time -- assuming you haven't
>> got font downloading switched off.
>
>So, as Adrienne said, it works for *some browsers some of the time*.
>Even your own statement says that it doesn't work for IE all of the
>time.

Font embedding works in IE all of the time unless you have disabled it
-- in the same way that image downloading in IE works all the time
unless you have disabled it -- or printing of backgrounds in IE works
all the time unless you disable it, or ...........

And your point is ... ?
>

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Jake

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