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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. aaaaaaaa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First POST!!!!!!

    1. Re:aaaaaaaa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      So the tag "!worf" is applied to this story and shows when I reload the Slashdot main page. That's wonderful. I mean fuck, seeing how I can read, I already knew that WOFF was not WORF yet some genius felt the need to point this out. And it became a part of the tags on the main page. What else is wonderful is that I have NEVER EVER, NOT ONE FUCKING TIME applied a tag to a story, refreshed the Slashdot main page, and seen my tag in place. Anyone else have this issue?

      If shit like this didn't happen, I might even consider no longer posting nigger jokes. But, since basic functionality isn't working for me on a very standard setup (firefox on linux), I figure I might as well have some fun and ruffle the feathers of the easily offended. Hell, upsetting the easily offended is sort of like a public service, as they so badly need to have this done or else they risk being childish and whiney their entire lives. I love black people too, and I know very well I will never be as cool as many of them are. It's just that the word "honkey" just doesn't get the same effect out of the easily offended, because their primitive minds and social conditioning can't grasp such simple concepts as "racism is wrong no matter who it's done to." So again, might as well have fun with them, that way their stupidity and PC piety isn't a total loss.