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Another Stab at Online Outline Fonts

Posted by timothy on from the transportability dept.

orest writes "Microsoft took a whack at it with WEFT. Bitstream tried TrueDoc. But someone has finally gotten somewhere with sIFR. sIFR allows web designers to render font outlines -- and thereby their preferred fonts -- in a visitor's web browser, without those fonts being installed on the visitor's computer. sIFR relies on JavaScript and Flash to accomplish its magic. A similar, bleeding-edge solution exists in Batik, an open-source SVG browser from the Apache Foundation."

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  1. Re:Anyone see a problem with this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's not new either. In any page where I use JavaScript I make sure that things still function sanely, albiet not as prettily without JS.

    Yes, so do I. But we are talking about "creatives" and "designers" here, people whose common sense is more often than not blurred by Macromedia-marketimng and Apple-zealotry. Making their sites accessible to non-shitheads is pretty non-trivial to them.