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SVG fonts are now supported in Opera 10
Sep 2, 2009 20:19
Did you know that Opera 10 was officially launched yesterday? It now sports a cool new interface, also has a new "turbo" compression technology which was first introduced, then removed in beta, and again it has made a comeback. The email client also seems to be much more refined and improved. By the way, the tweaking is so much in line that it even sports a new shiny desktop icon.
But under all this, not many have noticed one very significant change. And which is that Opera 10 now officially supports SVG Fonts, which are also known as Web fonts. SVG fonts are also a part of SVG graphics and forms fonts which are very scalable, efficient and, more importantly, cross platform. Also, one must note that the SVG font specification is retained by a vendor-neutral organization for good.
The SVG font specification is open and free to download at the W3 site: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/fonts.html
Well, I certainly regard it to be the future of the Web. I, for one, am very happy that at least one
Hopefully, other browsers, too, will add support for SVG fonts now that it's part of the Acid3 test!
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Opera has been building browsers for 15 years and has never been a "webkit-related" browser- whatever that term means. Opera's rendering core is called Presto, while webkit is used by the Safari and Chrome.
SVG fonts can be used as web fonts, but is not an umbrella term for web fonts. You can use popular TrueType fonts, OpenType fonts as web fonts.
Sep 02, 2009 21:17
Thanks for the correction Zibin. Yes Opera is not a webkit based browser like Firefox / Chrome, it uses it's own rendering engine called Presto.
Sep 03, 2009 17:31
I think zibin's right. Web fonts is a more generic term for fonts on a web server that are downloaded when a user views a page. The benefit is the website designer can use a particular font and not worry about whether it is installed on the user's computer. The most common web fonts are TTF/OTF.
As you mention, SVG fonts are different in that they are vector-based (and therefore infinitely scalable) and cross-platform. I agree that hopefully all browsers will support it.
One more thing, Opera's default page when you install and first run it introduces the Presto engine, not Webkit.
Sep 03, 2009 09:44
I think zibin's right. Web fonts is a more generic term for fonts on a web server that are downloaded when a user views a page. The benefit is the website designer can use a particular font and not worry about whether it is installed on the user's computer. The most common web fonts are TTF/OTF.
As you mention, SVG fonts are different in that they are vector-based (and therefore infinitely scalable) and cross-platform. I agree that hopefully all browsers will support it.
One more thing, Opera's default page when you install and first run it introduces the Presto engine, not Webkit.
Sep 03, 2009 09:44
yup you're right Tagawa - Hope more browsers adapt SVG fonts.
Sep 03, 2009 17:32
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