soeren says

WebKit @font-face support

October 4th, 2007

Surfin’ Safari: “Downloadable Fonts”

WebKit now supports CSS @font-face rules.

Sweet!

We still have that copyright problem to deal with, but the Open Font License and good ol’ Creative Commons should help with that.

That there will inevitably be abuses where people – out of ignorance, or deliberately – put fonts whose licenses do not allow distribution into their style sheets shouldn’t be relevant, and shouldn’t have stopped vendors either about a decade ago when both Microsoft and Netscape gave downloadable fonts a first (very much unsuccessful) try.

But with significantly raised awareness on and inclination towards open licensing formats, there is hope it will work out better this time.

Posted in Chuckellania, Software, Web, WebKit & Safari

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