Re: downloadable fonts in FF 3.1 - better for MathML?

Hi ray,
I guess you already know about the STIX fonts:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/
which work OK with MathML. Why do you need different fonts?
Cheers, Samy

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On Dec 12, 1:56 am, Ray Kiddy <[email protected]> wrote:
> I saw something and, before I get too excited about it, I thought I
> would check with others.
>
> On the Firefox 3.1 Developer page, I see:
>
>    http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_3.1_for_developers:
>
>    # @font-face allows sites to link to downloadable fonts
>      so that Firefox may render sites more precisely as
>      intended (including being able to display Unicode
>      characters not otherwise supported).
>
> So, if I understand this, it may be possible to be _sure_ that one could
> display some bit of MathML on this version of Firefox. Obviously there
> will be resource management issues, and I expect there will be things to
> write bugs about, but this does change the game, yes?
>
> So, I'm excited. I think.
>
> We may be able to get away from requiring font downloads to use MathML,
> yes? No?
>
> cheers - ray