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By chrismills 
Wednesday, 2. September 2009, 08:35:22
Seven Web Fonts showcases
This article presents some all-new Web Fonts showcases, written by the Opera developer relations team, to educate and inspire you! Check them out, and feel free to download and reuse the code.
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By jax 
Tuesday, 1. September 2009, 06:45:35
Web fonts moves a font character problem over to the web developer. It is nice to have web fonts supporting e.g. Devanagari, but how do you know that beforehand?
How can I know whether a given font supports Chinese characters, mathematical symbols, Czech characters or anything else I might need? Yes, I could proofread the text with the new font but I never have time for that, and besides it is no fun and easy to make mistakes.
What I am driving at is: Is there some font fount with such character range information, which web fonts covers which Unicode range adequately?
By chrismills 
Tuesday, 1. September 2009, 07:26:59
Originally posted by jax:
Web fonts moves a font character problem over to the web developer.
I don't agree - the responsibility has
always been with the web developer to ensure that the fonts they choose to use feature the glyphs they need. But they don't have to think about it so much with the "web safe fonts" that are typically installed across all systems.
Web Fonts now give them the choice to use different fonts, which can only be a good thing, potential licensing issues aside. And web designers should take care to choose reputable fonts.
And you should always test your designs anyway.
Originally posted by jax:
What I am driving at is: Is there some font fount with such character range information, which web fonts covers which Unicode range adequately?
I absolutely agree that this would be a great tool for web designers to have. I'm not sure if that is available or not.
By mopco Friday, 2. October 2009, 04:14:09
In the drop caps example:
p:firstletter should be
p:first-letter.
Great article, thanks!
By chrismills Friday, 2. October 2009, 13:17:00
Originally posted by mopco:
In the drop caps example:
p:firstletter should be p:first-letter.
Thanks for pointing it out; I've fixed it now.
