That's called "font embedding". I'm pretty sure it works in Firefox too.
As for the Gothic font, it probably wasn't an intentional result. At the Gothic Wikipedia, there are multiple fonts listed. to which I should eventually add MPH 2B Damase.
Mark
On 25/04/05, James R. Johnson modean52@comcast.net wrote:
In internet explorer, you can force the browser to display a certain font without having it on the user's computer. It's somewhere in the HTML code, but I could never figure that part out. :(
James
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pablo Saratxaga Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 11:37 PM To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Distributing fonts
Kaixo!
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:30:51PM +0200, Magnus Manske wrote:
If we have a free TTF file to download from the web somewhere, link's fine. If not, I see no reason *not* to upload and offer one. Sure haven't heard one in the previous postings.
Ah, that is quite a different thing.
However, it would still be better to put it somewhere else (along other fonts for example; that would reach more people)
Come on, where's the problem? We're offering 4-5 *GB* with pictures to download for en already. And you say we're not equipped to serve a single TTF file?
I had read it as if the idea was to frentically upload all kind of fonts available. Indeed one font is not very much; but the real point is that it is not the right place. The images are big, but they illustrate the articles; they are part of the information in the articles.
A font, I don't see how it could be a part of the article (a font file cannot be directly usable from the web pages; it has to be downloaded and installed first; that is different to images, sound and video that can be directly seen/heard).
A font file could be a part of the article of an article about typography or computer typography; but as it won't be directly usable from the web browser, probably it would be useless anyway.
Another thing would be a font like a tool to create the infrastructure (eg, to standardize on the typography of the logos etc); such font-as-a-tool could indeed have its place in meta:
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