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Every website on the internet use the same fonts. Infact, they’re the same fonts we’ve been using since Microsoft released it’s “Core fonts for the web” in the mid 1990’s. If you’re a designer, and you’ve ever wanted to use a particular font. Too bad, you can’t; there’s no way to ensure that users will have your desired font installed. Thankfully you can degrade gracefully. However, the original style that the designer intended is lost.

Opera is apparently implementing support for “Web fonts” in an upcoming version of its browser. As apart of CSS3, designers and developers will be able to specify downloadable fonts in their stylesheets which will reside in the browser’s cache. This opens many possibilities!

Unfortunately, I’m concerned that it may be abused. How do you prevent someone from choosing an awful, illegible font on their web page? Interestingly enough, other concerns include the distribution of fonts under their many licences and support from other browsers.

Clagnut’s blog has more information on the upcoming web fonts.

I was browsing my gallery, repairing some permissions and I decided to click the “Powered by Simple PHP Gallery” link at the bottom of the page. Low and behold, the domain name has obviously expired and is now available for auction. Anyhow, I noticed that site was rather pretty so I checked the source code. To my amazement it was using divs and CSS. It even included a proper doctype. Spam sites conform to w3c, why can’t everyone else?