Today՚s subpixel rendering as displayed in Safari on Mac OS X.
What is remarkable about Safari՚s @font-face support is the fact that for
the first time embedding of standard formats, namely TrueType (ttf) and
OpenType (ttf/otf), is possible without any prior conversion as the following
css code shows.
1 @font-face {
2 font-family: GraublauWeb;
3 src: url(fonts/graublau.otf) format ("opentype");
4 }The Font Foundries̓ Concerns
Suppliers of commercial fonts, however, where not exactly happy about the
new functionality, because it means that everybody can download the
embedded fonts and use them without paying a licence fee.