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: