Web fonts — where are we? Web fonts seem to be the topic of the moment, we all want to use cool, interesting fonts in our web design, but we can’t because that just not how things currently work. Will there be a solution? yeah eventually. Favourite part of this article is this bit:
Way back in 1997, Microsoft developed its proprietary EOT (Embedded OpenType Format — basically a compact version of OpenType, that permits sub-setting), that only supported Internet Explorer. Hoping for widespread adoption, Microsoft opened it up for all, and in 2007 submitted their EOT proposal to the W3C (for inclusion in CSS3). Later that year, the proposal was rejected, for, among other reasons, security.
A few things wrong there… firstly IE submitting a 10 year old idea, secondly they submitted it for inclusion in CSS3. IE doesn’t support CSS3, not even in the latest and greatest IE8. So to them it probably doesn’t matter that it was rejected.