Web Open Font Format Gets Backing From Mozilla

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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Because SVG fonts aren't already enough ...

[BitZtream]

Seriously mozilla, I'm rapidly losing faith in you.

We already have SVG fonts. Why exactly do we need ANOTHER one?

Fix the abomination your browser has turned into and focus on the reason you exist. Its got to the point where IE is going to be less bloated than Firefox.

You've got PLENTY of bugs to fix already, and you can't even agree with anyone on existing compatibility issues.

We don't want more features, we want Firefox to stop running like Navigator did in the late 90s.

Are you trying to become another Novell? Once a respectable company with a good product, but now a has been with nothing of real value to offer? Stop fragmenting the web, we don't need another freaking font format.

FOCUS.

again

FOCUS

Before you become obsolete, of course, with Chrome, it may well be too late.

mold down

[Anonymous Coward]

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