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Internet Explorer 10 adds support for CSS OpenType markup
Posted by Si_Daniels in
9 Jan 2012 — 3:00pm
9 Jan 2012 — 3:00pm
News hot off the web!
IE joins Firefox in supporting CSS OpenType markup.
Many thanks to FontShop, Monotype and The Font Bureau for producing some great demos to show off the technology. When it comes to web typography some would claim that OT support is "bigger than WOFF" :-) I know I would.
Cheers, Si
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9 Jan 2012 — 3:08pm
related: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/opentype/opentype-fontbureau/...
9 Jan 2012 — 3:12pm
Yep, the demos are linked to the article, direct links here...
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/opentype/opentype-monotype/in...
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/opentype/opentype-fontbureau/...
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/opentype/opentype-fontfont/in...
Note you need IE10 DP4 on the Windows 8 Developer Preview, or a recent version of Firefox.
Si
9 Jan 2012 — 3:21pm
Great news. Nice to see the W3C standard supports petite caps. Maybe Word 2016 and Adobe CS9 would do the same.
9 Jan 2012 — 3:45pm
Si, to clarify, is this IE support using the working draft CSS3 syntax to which you linked, or the 'moz' syntax that Mozilla implemented to support OTL while awaiting publication of the CSS3 standard?
9 Jan 2012 — 3:57pm
IE is using the syntax from the latest working draft, but with an ms- prefix.
10 Jan 2012 — 6:20am
Is there a specific reason for using a different syntax? I can imagine, that web developers won’t like this that much …
10 Jan 2012 — 7:26am
Thanks, Si!
10 Jan 2012 — 7:53am
>Is there a specific reason for using a different syntax? I can imagine, that web developers won’t like this that much …
I think it's standard practice to align with the most recent version of a W3C working draft. FireFox implemented support quite a while ago, hence the earlier syntax.
However, once the standardization process is complete there will be no need to use the prefixes (ms or moz) and browsers will be expected to support the final syntax, which will likely match IE's implementation.