<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Firefox 3.5 and your own fonts</div><div>Published: 07.02.2009</div><div><a href="http://webpub.mit.edu/2009/07/firefox-35-and-your-own-fonts/">http://webpub.mit.edu/2009/07/firefox-35-and-your-own-fonts/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Among support for a number of HTML 5 specifications and updates to improve the tab experience, Fireox 3.5 now supports CSS Web Fonts. From <a href="http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3827631/Firefox+3.5+Touts+Major+Improvements.htm">Datamation</a>:</div><div><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div> One of the most visible changes that Firefox 3.5 will enable for Web developers comes by way of support for CSS Web Fonts.</div><div><br></div><div> “When you think about it, Web designers have had to play with the same ten fonts that they could reliably ensure were on everyone’s computer,” Beltzner said.</div><div><br></div><div> Beltzner explained that the way fonts have worked in the past is that a Web developer specified a particular font that needed to be resident on a user’s computer. If that font wasn’t present the user would get a default font. With CSS Web Fonts that model changes and developers can now specify any font they want by providing a reference to where the font is available.</div><div><br></div><div> “You can just say ‘use my handwriting font, here’s the font and it’s a 20kb file,’” Beltzner said. “So when the browser hits the page, we pull down the file and render the page in that font. When you leave the page, we dispose of the font.”</div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>