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I have been playing with True Font Family quite a lot and have now set up a demo page for my pleasure and amusement.

I already use TFF for all the headers I use (the font is Tempus Sans ITC, for those who may be interested.) But I want to try and push the limits of this a bit. My demo works fine on Firefox and Safari, pretty much works on Internet Explorer (after a certain amount of faffing around) and fails miserably on Opera. Which is a slight surprise, as TFF generates the Tempus headers quite happily – it simply refuses to render the content. TFF’s author is a very helpful guy so I will contact him and no doubt receive an explanation and a fix in short order.

One reason I am doing this is that the web world is about to undergo a huge sea-change – Apple’s Safari browser uses Webkit as it’s rendering engine. And Webkit is already able to use downloadable fonts. So it is only a matter of time before Opera (Presto) and Firefox (Gecko) join in the fun. I don’t suppose Internet Explorer will be in any great hurry to adopt this feature anytime soon.

More on @font-face information can be found at Qodo and at css3-info – now get ready for a deluge of eye-wateringly bad web layouts, font copyright infringement accusations and general fun and mayhem!

My demo is here – altho’ I already feel the need for a more in-depth, technical demo once I’ve wrapped my head around everything that is going on where font handling is concerned.

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