Comments on: Advances in Web typography

By: alp

alp — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:12:09 +0000

sentio: The List Apart @font-face advocacy article is written by Opera Software CTO Håkon Wium Lie so it seems fair to assume that their browser supports it

By: sentio

sentio — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:17:31 +0000

As far as I know Opera has no @font-face support. I don’t know where you read about it.

By: alp

alp — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:48:23 +0000

Anonymous: Good idea. I guess we should make sure that it’s:

a) Possible to disable auto-download of custom fonts, just like you can already disable image download.

b) Possible to revert custom fonts after a page has loaded, in case the fonts are difficult to read.

I’ll look into getting these features added and supported in the SDK. Thanks!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:24:48 +0000

Does WebKit support disabling this feature, forcing pages to use standard fonts instead?

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:01:08 +0000

@Alex: Opera supports a large amount of SVG, almost all of it in fact. ASVG however does not support SVG, it supports a subset of modern SVG but with a large number of non-standard properties. In fairness that is because ASVG was developed a long time ago prior to more complete definitions of the SVG spec. It no longer matters anyway as Adobe has discontinued it. And i believe Batik and Renesis are purely SVG viewers, eg no (or minimal) web proper.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:58:17 +0000

@Jeff Schiller

Thanks, I never knew Opera supported it (nor the Adobe SVG viewer), great work on their behalf.

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By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:35:59 +0000

Holy cow! I just tried this out and it flies! I don’t know how Firefox 3 fell so far behind on both features and performance, I thought they had lots of good developers

By: alp

alp — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:16:55 +0000

robert: People routinely download fonts off the Web and install them system-wide without raising security concerns. The approach taken in WebKit is in fact more conservative (fonts get loaded in-process and aren’t installed to the system) — just like PDF viewers xpdf and Evince. But even then, you’re right of course, we always need to stay vigilant.

Adam Williamson: Since the fonts are loaded in-process, the threat of thousands of font files is no different than the threat of, say, thousands of img tags in a page. There are sanity checks in place to avoid this becoming a problem.

By: Adam Williamson

Adam Williamson — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:59:40 +0000

robert: my thoughts exactly.

Also, has anyone considers what happens if I create a page that specifies several thousand very small font files?

Or one *really big* one (for people on modems, or with bandwidth caps)?