The Webmistress — Fri, 07 Feb 2003 08:30:30 +0000

Nope I don't have that font and something similar wouldn't work as it has to be what's specified in his font list.

Roo — Fri, 07 Feb 2003 00:03:09 +0000

Julia really? Do you possibly have the embedded font installed? Or maybe something similar?

I do suppose some would use hard to read fonts..(such as when my son wanted to use one called 'Checkstub' on a senior English paper. *Sigh*)

Personally I'd love to use Century Gothic, Garamond, Windsor............

Suzanne — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 23:34:12 +0000

IE/Mac doesn't work. I personally do not like viewing installed fonts as people tend to choose fonts that are really hard to read.

The Webmistress — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 23:26:56 +0000

I also viewed it in IE and didn't get any message about font installing??!!

Roo — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 22:11:01 +0000

I read about embedding fonts when one of the 4X versions of Netscape came out.

I viewed the site above and it really is kind of cool but........

In Mozilla the font seems to be Courier something, In IE I got a message about the site needing to temporarily needing install fonts, and I see what I'm assuming is what he means me to see.

What I'm wondering is how your average surfer using IE would react to the message.

Would the non savvy run away as fast as they can do you think?

It really would be cool to be able to use a wider variety of font, but I question the usabilty of this.

Anyone have any thoughts about this?

Suzanne — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:37:41 +0000

http://alis.isoc.org/web_ml/index.en.html#suite may be of interest, as well, though it applies to multilingual sites.

Suzanne — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:31:45 +0000

You don't need me! You've got it all pegged.

Actually, I haven't done any work with embedding fonts (this is a method of embedding, clearly -- no different from the original WEFT experiments, just in the CSS instead of in the font element).

PC/IE is the only browser that supports it, it seems: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/fontface.asp

The Webmistress — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 08:40:52 +0000

Welcome to TWF beammeup4,

You have certainly started with an interesting question! I have pondered this situation for some time and never worked out how it could be done, obviously it can and now we await Suzanne's expert voice on the matter

disaster-master — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 05:57:30 +0000

I see this in his css code:

@font-face {
font-family: Chris Pirillo;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
src: url(http://chris.pirillo.com/CHRISPI1.eot);

it appears that the font is being imported from http://chris.pirillo.com/CHRISPI1.eot somehow. Not sure how that is working but it does.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#font-descriptions

Also, in his code you see the following which means that if the users browser doesn't or can't use the Chris font it will use Lucida Console, etc.

.post { font-family: Chris Pirillo, Lucida Console, Lucida Sans Typewriter, Courier New; color: Black; font-size: 14pt; width: 560px; text-align: justify; }

I think I am correct on this.

HEY SUZANNE!!! We need you on this one.