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Web Open Font Format Gets Backing From Mozilla

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the turns-out-open-is-easier-to-adopt dept.

A new format specification has reached consensus among web and type designers and is being backed by Mozilla. Dubbed Web Open Font Format (WOFF), it is an effort to bring advanced typography to the Web in a much better way. Support for the new spec will be included as a part of Firefox 3.6 which just recently hit beta. "WOFF combines the work Leming and Blokland had done on embedding a variety of useful font metadata with the font resource compression that Kew had developed. The end result is a format that includes optimized compression that reduces the download time needed to load font resources while incorporating information about the font's origin and licensing. The format doesn't include any encryption or DRM, so it should be universally accepted by browser vendors — this should also qualify it for adoption by the W3C."

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  1. Re:Easier fonts means a lot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What in GODS name are you blabbering about? No, seriously, what are you actually going on about?
    This is for WEB fonts, not for "Oh hey, i think i will completely misdirect you by somehow magically being capable of modifying your STATUS BAR with web font-faces!"
    These open fonts do absolutely NOTHING bad, people can already be redirected to websites without realising it, link obfuscation has been around since the web began.

    Nobody gives a damn about the idiot users, especially the shops.
    The idiots are their largest incomes, "oh my computers not workin, best bin it and buy a new one". (yes, it happens every day)

    Whoever modded this up seriously needs to read it back over again, the parents posts have absolutely NOTHING to do with this and is almost FUD-like.