On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk(a)eunet.yu> wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
It might be helpful for some language wikis to
link in a free font this
way, when standard fonts supporting their script are often unavailable.
Right now on such sites there tends to be a little English link at the
top such as 'font help' leading to a page like this telling you how to
download and install a font:
http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project:Font_help
Even more helpful: MediaWiki could determine if a page uses a rare
character upon save and link to appropriate fonts.
This should be pushed to the client end I think because even the page uses
a rare
character, the decision should be for the browser to load the font
and not for mediaWiki to push it. Some front end js can do the task well.