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

Yes, I gues that's the idea: that the STIX fonts can get donwloaded 
automagically when needed by a math page without the user explicitly 
downloading and installing them.

Sounds good to me.



[email protected] escribió:
> 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
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