Embedded OpenType and the W3C
Date : 2008 07 23 Category : Tech & Development
AjaxianWe discussed the new font-face / EOT work yesterday. Ben loves typography, hence him wanting to give Tahoma a rest.
Then we see Microsoft weighing in on the topic, and it made me ponder the politics going on.
Bill Hill has a new post on the IEBlog about Font Embedding on the Web.
The first couple of paragraphs says a lot. First we have the "look at the companies supporting it":
It’s Bill Hill here again, still fighting the good fight to make typography on the Web as good as we’re used to seeing in print. We made significant progress this week, when one of the USA’s most prestigious font companies announced its support for the Embedded OpenType format for font embedding on the Web, and launched a new website to promote other browsers to support it in addition to Internet Explorer (which has had EOT support built-in since 1996).
And then the fear about font linking ;)
At the same time, Ascender Corporation and its collaborators in the typographic community also warned of the legal dangers of using the Font Linking mechanism currently supported by other browsers.
So, EOT is "in front of the W3C". What are your thoughts?
You can give Bill Hill's work a peak and look at the Assender post too.