[WebPub] Firefox 3.5 and your own fonts

[Lisa C. Mayer]

Firefox 3.5 and your own fonts
Published: 07.02.2009
http://webpub.mit.edu/2009/07/firefox-35-and-your-own-fonts/

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 Datamation:

>     One of the most visible changes that Firefox 3.5 will enable for  
> Web developers comes by way of support for CSS Web Fonts.
>
>     “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.
>
>     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.
>
>     “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.”

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