Any way to include an eot in with choices of fonts?

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Posted by: RiannaCreator1
         

Hello, does anyone know if it is possible to inlclude an eot in with font choices on a web page? For instance normally if you are afraid that browsers can't view your font, you can give other choices behind it like this: font family: "sylfaen, arial, sans-serif"

 

Then, if the browser can't view the first one it will go on to the next, etc. etc. etc.

 

What happens if the browser won't view an eot file? Can you include it in this list somehow? This is only a rough guessing example, but perhaps something along these lines?

font family: "src='http://websitename/fonts/sylfaen.eot', arial, sans-serif" 

 

I don't know, it might be asking too much but with everything web pages can do it seems like someone might have thought of it. Especially when it is so much work to set up eot files, only to have some browsers not read them.

 

Let me know if you have seen or heard of anything like this. Thanks a lot.

Rianna

 

 

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Posted by: anilchaitanya
         

Hellow,

As i know you can show multiple fonts on your web page using link to multiple .eot files.

 

But as uou asking about ulternate fonts, they are not required at all. The reason is  (when using .eot.) data of your web page downloades along with the font, every time.

 

Still you can give ulternate font in font family, but all they will refer to installed fonts on harddisk.

 

anil

 

 

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Posted by: Majid
         

I believe that if the browser does not support WEFT, it normally uses the font which is being substituted by the embeded font. So say you wish it fall back and use Arial, you may use Arial in the webpage and then substitute it by the embeded font (eot).

 

Other choice is to let your page detect the browser and then use appropriate page or font or script, so that second choice fonts could be used to display the page.

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Posted by: mjan
         

Hi Rianna,

 

Yes, you may specify alternate fonts by simply delimiting each font with a comma. For example, STYLE="font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Arial". You would do so if you care about people using browsers beside IE. It is not needed on GlyphGate web servers, which support EOT/XCGF fonts for browsers beside IE.

 

Please note that *font* and *file* names are very different things. You can't mix EOT file and font names like you guessed above. Font names is used in the 'font-family' CSS property (or FONT tag) and the EOT file URL should be used in the "@font-face" rules. 

 

All the details about CSS can be found at www.w3c.org/TR/CSS2 (have a look at chapter 15).

 

Regards,

- Michael

 

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