When I told one of my co-workers how excited I was that almost all the major browser vendors now supported font-embedding in their products, I got the same reaction from her that Bert from Sesame Street got when he told Ernie how exciting he thought bottle cap collecting was yes, gratuitous ridicule was involved. Now, while I can somewhat understand her disinterest she is not a front-end web developer, but a Java programmer, I defend my enthusiasm by stating here that fonts are a really important part of web design, and the fact that we can now theoretically choose any font to embed inside our web pages and applications is something to celebrate…
Direct link: CSS @font-face in Depth