appleinsider.com — The ability to download and immediately render non-standard web fonts is just one of several advancements Apple Inc. has planned for Safari 3.1, a small but significant update to its share-gaining web browser for both the Mac and Windows PCs. The release, which underwent private testing this week, will tie in a number of other enhancements, most of
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dgp1Feb 8, 2008
...and NO ONE EVER USED the features then. I bet because Netscape and MS didn't do a very smart job of implementing it. Coupled with the fact that neither one of them did it in a way that would work with the "other guy's" browser. So hopefully WebKit will do it better.
gsneddersFeb 8, 2008
Actually, it might not have been Gecko, but rather NN.
johnpaul191Feb 9, 2008
Initially I thought that too, but really any time you download anything, like a piece of javascript or video clip, you are potentially exposed to a security issue. I'm not sure it's going to be any worse. Security or features?..... if you want security, then keep your machine off the internet.
mtheoryxFeb 9, 2008
It's spelled: dwarves. And they prefer "little people" dammit.
mtheoryxFeb 9, 2008
And you seem to assume that downloading a font is larger than downloading pre-rendered text graphics. Do you know this for a fact? No, you do not, because you don't know how much will need to be downloaded. (A "free font" download online != what will need to be downloaded for this to work.) So piss off already with your smug replies.
mike006900Feb 20, 2008
I think this will be useful, although I not that impressed with Safari for windows so far.document.styleSheets.length fails to return the correct value which breaks the app I am working on.
mike006900Feb 20, 2008
Sorry my comment on digg and it is not accurate, it seems setting a title attribute for the link tag is what caused the problem. I had assumed using a title was ok as it is correct for a style tag.
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