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It seems that method worked in NS 4 but only worked in IE with an ActiveX plugin, but doesn't work in anything post Netscape 4 nor in IE for the mac.

There doesn't seem to be a unified method that works everywhere.
The one IE currently uses (developed with Adobe) is actually conceptually better because the instructions on downloading the font are part of the CSS (where it belongs - even if it isn't valid CSS) but won't work with non IE browsers.

Hopefully the (X)HTML 5 that is long overdue will provide a standard for embedded fonts that everyone supports, I'm tired of all this proprietary crap for stuff that should have been standard a long time ago.

Last edited by resedit (2009-03-29 4:58 am)

The CSS font-family takes a list of fonts, like this:

h1 {
    font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;
    }

It will try to use the first font listed. If that is not available it will use the second. If that is not available it will use the third, et cetera.

Basseq wrote:

resedit wrote:

There doesn't seem to be a unified method that works everywhere.

Au contraire, mon ami.

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr/

how quickly does this solution render in older computers?

I have didot on OS X, but I don't know if that font is available on windows. If you don't want to use siFR you could just code something like this:

body {font-family:didot, georgia, serif;}

Some people will get didot, others will get georgia. (By the way I don't know if georgia is the best back up font for didot, I'm just giving you an example.)

If you're interested in font embedding, which I don't know if you can do with didot for licensing reasons, check out Jon Tan's article at http://jontangerine.com/log/2008/10/fon … fonts-work . It's a really informative article.