HTML/Whatever help

[na_th_an]

The General Programming forum is still missing, so I beg your pardon for posting this message here.

Well, I don't know where I heard that you can embed fonts to a HTML document so people who don't have them automaticly download and your web is shown correctly. Can it be done? how?

Thanks.

EDITED: Don't bother, I solved it... Maybe I should've made the Google search before posting here HEHEHEHEH

Anyway, if anyone finds it interesting, I can provide the links I found where I learn how to embed fonts in your webs. Get rid of verdana/arial!! try sumthin' new

[toonski84]

why would you want any other font? embeded fonts just mean a bigger download...

[na_th_an]

I'm fed up with the 5 fonts found in every web page.

Anyhow, I have compressed my font and it takes 20 K.

[Hexadecimal Disaster]

Still... fonts doesn't make a good layout per se.

Usually the best fonts used for "normal" text (not titles, headlines and the such) can be classified on 3 groups: serif (like Times New Roman), sans-serif (Arial, Helvetica, Verdana) and monospace / typewriter (Courier). These are the most legible ones at smaller font sizes... so why bother? You can perfectly make very interesting pages using these "dull" fonts...

[na_th_an]

I know.

Yeah, sure, sure...

Yeah.

Well, I know...

Oh, well, the thing is that I found a font that rocks and I like it. I am free. It looks really good. It is very legible...... I like it, and that's what matters. The download is 10 Kb, it is stored in your temporal files like images and such, and it is slightly deleted when you exit the web...

So what's the problem ?

When I finish the placeholder I'll post the URL and you'll see why I chose that font. I like it. I just was fed up with verdana and tahoma.

EDITED ***

Look:



I think it looks really good, doesn't it?

Please, now seriously... If you consider this font disgusting tell me do. I need this kind of feedback. Maybe it looks fine in my computer but not in yours.

Check it out the placeholder here: http://usuarios.lycos.es/qbsux

[toonski84]

yeah, it sorta looks low-res and not any more complex than arial/helvatica. but that depends on if it's a style choice. if you're going to go retro-looking it might be a good look (though terminal is on just about every computer wink-wink-qboho)

[na_th_an]

Yeah, definitely I will go retro-style. In fact, that font comes with quicktime

What I am interested is about that font looks the same in your system, or it looks screwed or illegible.

[Hexadecimal Disaster]

Looks like a goddamned Spectrum.

For short:

Question? Answer.
Nice font? Nice.
Legible and practical? Yep.
Works on your system? No. It doesn't load a single shit. (Win98 + IE5, the dreaded duo)
Then WTF are you seeing? A screwed page that uses Times New Roman.

Let's see...

Code:

<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
<!-- /* $WEFT -- Created by: Na Than Assh Antti (na_th_an@hotmail.com) on 28/01/03 -- */
  @font-face {
    font-family: Sydnie;
    font-style:  normal;
    font-weight: normal;
    src: url(fonts/SYDNIE1.eot);

</STYLE>

...maybe's that relative URL... dunno... (er... try ./fonts/sydnie1.eot)

[na_th_an]

Okay. I'll fix it tomorrow. Thaks for the feedback.

EDITED: I changed it. If it still doesn't show well, please tell me and I'll try the complete URL.

(did you know that these style lines were generated automaticly by the font packer? (done by microsoft... uh, forget it) ).

[Hexadecimal Disaster]

Well, in the words of MiiJaySung:

IE 5.0 is crap...

Message:
5.5. fixes the billins of IE 5 bugs with CSS and JS

That's it, a stupid error regarding IE5 and CSS. So don't worry, it will not work anyways. :-?