Mozilla helped to bring it to fruition. Microsoft and Opera joined to sponsor its standardization. And now Google has decided to add support for WOFF, the Web Open Font Format, to its Chrome Browser.
"It appears that we have decided to implement WOFF in Chromium," said Chromium issue tracker Friday. He said he'd be writing the support in a way that converts WOFF to TrueType fonts for internal handling by the browser.
WOFF lets browsers download typefaces associated with Web pages, letting Web designers customize their sites' appearances. Currently, most Web sites use a small set of fonts that it's safe to assume are installed already on people's computers.
More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20003277-264.html
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"It appears that we have decided to implement WOFF in Chromium," said Chromium issue tracker Friday. He said he'd be writing the support in a way that converts WOFF to TrueType fonts for internal handling by the browser.
WOFF lets browsers download typefaces associated with Web pages, letting Web designers customize their sites' appearances. Currently, most Web sites use a small set of fonts that it's safe to assume are installed already on people's computers.
More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20003277-264.html
