Michael Calore
October 20, 2009
Mozilla talk about releasing a new version 3.6 of Firefox will support the new WOFF (Web Open Font Format) before the year ends. It has become the third downloadable font format supported by Firefox in which incorporated to take care of TrueType and OpenType font. The beauty is the download is fast because WOFF fonts are compressed and support web tags and other unencrypted metadata. Though with all the new progress capabilities, there are still issues such as DRM (Digital Rights Management) and different standards of support from browsers. This makes designers goes through a lot of workarounds just to use these new fonts. The startup Typekit proposed a likely solution, which involves OpenType that will act as broker of licensing paradigm.
This is definitely an exciting onward course for displaying variety of font types in the web since we only have a very few selective fonts. Firefox is the most use browsers and hopefully, the other browser makers follow and improve their user interface so web designers doesn’t have to go through so much trouble to use these new fonts. The article also mentions that web authors will have the ability to use WOFF fonts in their visual page simply by linking the font files in their codes.
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