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

Hi Alvaro,
The issue of automatic downloading of the STIX fonts was already
discussed previously in this group in May-June 2008. See
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.mathml/browse_thread/thread/2c4a53f71f0144fd#
As far as I understood there are legal obstructions of doing that.
Cheers, Samy
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On Dec 12, 8:54 pm, Alvaro <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
> > ---------------------------------
> > 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