Re: embedding SVG fonts in HTML?

On Saturday, June 16, 2007 at 1:57:46 PM UTC-4, Robert Longson wrote:
> On Jun 15, 5:22 am, "Sarreq Teryx" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I've been using minefeild for a few days now, I don't know if either I'm doing
> > something wrong, or it just doesn't work or what, I've googled all over the
> > place and found nothing. Can SVG fonts be directly embedded in HTML documents,
> > if so how, if not, why not? I only ask because it seems like an obvious thing to
> > be able to do.
> 
> The current mozilla trunk does not support svg fonts. See
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/status.html and bug 119490. When
> it does you would be able to put svg text which used svg fonts in
> xhtml documents. xhtml text would not be able to use svg fonts
> directly and you will not be able to do this with HTML documents at
> all as you can't put svg in them.

I see this is still not implemented. Is there any work-around (aside from changing the text to paths)? Any clever combination of CSS with SVG or some such?