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Why were fonts originally not embedded in websites? Licensing, security, support?
by jared314 17y ago
Why were fonts originally not embedded in websites? Licensing, security, support?
- tptacek 17y agoLicensing. When you use a font in a PDF, the receiver of the PDF doesn't easily get the ability to re-use the font. When you embed it in a website, you're giving everyone on the Internet a workable copy of the font. Fonts are expensive.
- dflock 17y agoDepends on what you mean by originally, really. Originally all this was intended for sharing scientific research and no one cared about crap like fonts, or almost anything else we take for granted now; it kinda used to look like this: http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/T...