Need a quick tip!!

I was wondering if anyone knows how I can get my audience to download a font automatically when viewing my site?

Thanks.

 

I would certainly hope not. There is an unsupported @font in css which did allow that. Fortunately all browsers have withdrawn support for it. When it was supported, I onetime found myself downloading a 5mB Chinese font. The page had a small section of Chinese characters, and for that I had an incredibly long wait on a dial-up connection.

To cause a font to be downloaded automatically is extremely user-unfriendly. I can guarantee you there is no benefit to the user that would justify that waste of bandwidth/time.

cheers,

gary

 

Thanks for the prompt reply.

Yes, you are correct in the sense that it is quite user-unfriendly.

 

I would say try the Flash Replacement technique. You can have any font you want on the web cross-browser (as long as they have the flash player). Essentilaly, you can just embed whatever font you want into a flash app, then the JS auto-sets the text, widht, height, etc... for the flash so it appears like standard HTML text (it's even selectable)

 

I'd love to hear more if you could explain it.