HTTP:: Firefox 3 6 to Support the New Web Open Font Format
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Fonts may not exactly be the most glamorous of web technologies, but they represent one of the most important and one that has stagnated for a very long period of time. Things are finally moving in this area as well and new formats and standards are beginning to pop up. Now, Mozilla is throwing its hat in the ring with a new format called the Web Open Font Format (WOFF), which is linked to the OpenType and TrueType font formats. The upcoming Firefox 3.6 will add support for the new format that is beginning to see some adoption. “In Firefox 3.5 we included support for linking to TrueType and OpenType fonts. In Firefox 3.6 we’re including support for a new font format â€" the Web Open Font Format. [...] The WOFF format originated from a collaboration between the font designers Erik van Blokland and Tal Leming with help from Mozilla’s Jonathan Kew. Each had proposed their own format and WOFF represents a melding of these different proposals,†John Daggett, a Mozilla !
contributor working on font support, wrote. “The format itself is intended to be a simple repackaging of OpenType or TrueType font data, it doesn’t introduce any new behavior, alter the @font-face linking mechanism or affect the way fonts are rendered.†WOFF has two main advantages over the O...
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