History of @font-face

Last update May 24^th 2011 9:23:33 PM

Creation date May 24^th 2010 3:28:04 AM

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  selfthinker on May 24^th 2011 9:23:33 PMReport

  Text selectable

  yes

  Accessible

  yes

  Text scalable

  yes

  Loads quickly (no FOUT)

  yes

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  Seralo on Jul. 3^rd 2010 5:14:32 AMReport

  Description

  CSS standard to define the fonts to use.

• 
  Seralo on Jul. 3^rd 2010 5:10:07 AMReport

  Pros

  + l'accessibilité est conservé
  + supporte unicode
  + supporte toutes les variations de style sur la police
  

• 
  Seralo on Jul. 3^rd 2010 4:54:20 AMReport

  Description

  Standard CSS qui permet de définir des police de caractères non standard.

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  Seralo on Jul. 2^nd 2010 2:42:43 AMReport

  Difficulty to setup

  easy

  Cons

  - no common font file format to use across all browsers
  - some formats are heavy to download

  Pros

  + accessibility is maintained
  + full unicode support
  + font style support

• 
  Alexis on May 28^th 2010 2:32:25 AMReport

  Internet Explorer

  oui 4+ (EOT, WOFF (IE9) fonts)

  Firefox

  oui 3.5+ (TTF, OTF, WOFF (FF3.6) fonts)

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  Alexis on May 28^th 2010 2:25:03 AMReport

  Font licensing issue

  nécessite d'avoir les droits de la police

  Pros

  + accessibilité est conservé
  + supporte unicode
  + supporte toutes les variations de style sur la police

  Cons

  - il n'y a pas un seul format de fichier commun pour assurer la compatibilité de partout

  Description

  Standart CSS qui permet de définir des police de caractères non standart.

• 
  Alexis on May 24^th 2010 3:58:28 AMReport

  Website

  http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#the-font-face-rule

• 
  Alexis on May 24^th 2010 3:54:42 AMReport

  Pros

  + accessibility is maintained
  + full unicode support
  + full font style support

• 
  Alexis on May 24^th 2010 3:52:06 AMReport

  Pros

• 
  Alexis on May 24^th 2010 3:31:07 AMReport

  Font licensing issue

  need font rights

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  Alexis on May 24^th 2010 3:28:05 AMReport

  Description

  CSS standard to define the fonts to use.

  Website

  http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-CSS2-20080411/fonts.html#font-descriptions

  Pros

  + compatible with most browsers

  Cons

  - no common font file format to use across all browsers

  Additional link

  http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface

  Character set

  unicode

  Internet Explorer

  yes 4+ (EOT font)

  Firefox

  yes 3.5+ (TTF, OTF, WOFF (FF3.6+) fonts)

  Safari

  yes 3.1+ (TTF, OTF fonts)

  Google Chrome

  yes 4+ (TTF, OTF fonts)

  Opera

  yes 10+ (TTF, OTF, SVG fonts)

  iPhone/iPad

  yes (SVG font)

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  Alexis on May 24^th 2010 3:28:04 AMReport

  Mode

  item

  Name

  @font-face

  Viewer

  Public

  Editor

  Public

  Category

  Webmaster