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Opera CTO Hakon Wium Lie talks about web fonts

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 Published August 28th, 2007 5:04 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman

In an article posted today on A List Apart, Opera CTO Hakon Wium Lie wrote about the proposal to make web fonts a standard with the W3C.

With web fonts, designers would be able to use any font on webpages, even though those fonts aren’t installed on the user’s computer.

Hakon Wium Lie was the one who proposed CSS back in 1994 and is considered ‘the father of CSS’.

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  1. 1 BAMAToNE Aug 28th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    “[Hakon Wium Lie] has a Masters degree from the MIT Media Lab and a PhD from the University of Oslo. He is an advocate of Acid2, the video element, web fonts, and kite flying.”

    Ha!

  2. 2 David Naylor Aug 29th, 2007 at 3:18 am
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 on Windows Windows XP

    I’m totally digging this web fonts thing. Mozilla, IE and Opera, are you listening?

  3. 3 Berend Aug 29th, 2007 at 4:34 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Webfonts sound greet, I would love to do some damage with them.
    If every blog, every website now puts on an article about this, would that help?

  4. 4 YtseJam Aug 30th, 2007 at 12:30 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Berend, it will surely help spread the word, but I dunno how big of an actual impact it will have…

    Anyway,
    I myself do want webfonts. :)

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