Comments on: Web Designers Probably Don’t Even Know To Feel Relieved http://www.nullislove.com/2007/08/03/web-designers-probably-dont-even-know-to-feel-relieved/ Code for Coders Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:05:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: christoph http://www.nullislove.com/2007/08/03/web-designers-probably-dont-even-know-to-feel-relieved/comment-page-1/#comment-440 christoph Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:12:24 +0000 http://www.nullislove.com/2007/08/03/web-designers-probably-dont-even-know-to-feel-relieved/#comment-440 I hate those "embrace and extend" fonts, but Verdana and Georgia are awesome. Go M.C. I've wondered for a while how those "core web fonts" made it into OS X now that Explorer is no longer pre-installed. I thought it might be because the Office demo came with all new Macs. I didn't realize it was due to a separate licensing agreement. I remember reading somewhere that Linux users, lacking such a license, can no longer officially use the core web fonts, but I wasn't able to find a corroborating source. So maybe that's just FUD. Too bad the various "embedded font" technologies for Web pages never really took off; now that bandwidth is ubiquitous it might be worth revisiting. There's always Flash. ;-) I hate those “embrace and extend” fonts, but Verdana and Georgia are awesome. Go M.C.

I’ve wondered for a while how those “core web fonts” made it into OS X now that Explorer is no longer pre-installed. I thought it might be because the Office demo came with all new Macs. I didn’t realize it was due to a separate licensing agreement.

I remember reading somewhere that Linux users, lacking such a license, can no longer officially use the core web fonts, but I wasn’t able to find a corroborating source. So maybe that’s just FUD.

Too bad the various “embedded font” technologies for Web pages never really took off; now that bandwidth is ubiquitous it might be worth revisiting. There’s always Flash. ;-)

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