[thelist] Typography on the web

[PXL Transmitter]

I know this WFET technology very well ...

It does not work under IE Mac, therefore this technolgy is not cross
platform ... Besides the font embedding technolgy is not supported by
Netscape and other browsers ...

Hmmmm ...


graphically yours,


Marc Kleín - PXL Operator



> Marc,
> Microsoft has tools on their typography website, for the developer
> to embed fonts, into your websites, so those sites can be viewed with fonts,
> that you desire.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/typography/default.asp
>
> visit the page above, now sure, how Netscape and other browsers translates!
>
>
> Andres
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: PXL Transmitter [mailto:transmitter at pixel-industries.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:55 AM
> To: Evolt Thelist
> Subject: [thelist] Typography on the web
> Importance: High
>
>
>
> This one is mostly dedicated to the OS and browser developers out there,
>
>
> It´s nice to see that most web browsers now offer smooth antialiasing of
> system fonts on web pages ...
>
> ... but ...
>
> Where are the fonts dear OS and browser developers?
>
> Do web designers still have to struggle with not even a handful of available
> system fonts which work for MacOS X and Windows?
>
> It would be nice to have a couple of font families for web designers and IT
> developers to build appealing web sites and rich content web pages in the
> near future.
>
> I think most web designers would like to work with font families such as
> Sans, Serif, Slab-Serif etc... :
>
> - Regular
> - Extended
> - Condensed
>
> What would be really innovative once in a while would be the possibility to
> embed ones own fonts such as the TrueDoc technology developed by Bitstream
> and supported by Netscape browsers some time ago. I really don´t understand
> why this extraordinary technology has never become a standard on the
> internet!?
>
> I believe the browser battle never gave this font embedding technology a
> real chance!
>
> I think CSS offers many useful color and textstyle features and many web
> designers and IT developers would be grateful to work efficently with CSS
> attributes to create typography rich web pages.
>
> But where are the fonts???
>
> We need more typography on the web dear OS and browser developers! Got the
> message!? I hope so ...
>
>
> graphically yours,
>
>
> Marc Kleín - PXL Operator
>
>
>
>
>
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