Comments on: Firefox Adds Support for Web Open Font Format (WOFF) via @font-face

By: mp3 dinle

mp3 dinle — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:54:01 +0000

WOFF font as a standard system font. I think it is an excellent solution that doesn’t use DRM and will provide font creators a non-threatening and easy way to sell licenses of their fonts for web use.

By: css3 - XHTMLforum

css3 - XHTMLforum — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:52:40 +0000

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By: Jason Smith

Jason Smith — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:58:37 +0000

Good stuff.

By: Max Design - standards based web design, development and training » Some links for light reading (3/11/09)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:28:20 +0000

[...] Firefox Adds Support for Web Open Font Format (WOFF) via font-face [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:30:52 +0000

WOFF is really a specialized wrapper around an OpenType font (possibly other font formats as well) that can allow subsetting (only using a subset of the characters), attach metadata, and allows for compression. It appeals to font foundries because they can attach additional metadata to their fonts and it also adds a technical hurdle to casually misusing a WOFF font as a standard system font. I think it is an excellent solution that doesn’t use DRM and will provide font creators a non-threatening and easy way to sell licenses of their fonts for web use.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:20:47 +0000

I don’t think so, but it’ll probably get it soon enough, WOFF piggybacks on the OpenType/TrueType format that WebKit (and Gecko) already support.

By: CyberSkull

CyberSkull — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:22:14 +0000

Is there support in WebKit for this?