July 2009 – Keyman Blog

Developing Keyman

Internet Explorer embedded fonts vulnerability and patch

Microsoft have just announced a set of vulnerabilities with their Embedded OpenType Font component. This component is used in Internet Explorer to automatically download and display fonts on websites. it is especially useful for displaying text in languages not supported by your operating system. Tavultesoft use the Embedded OpenType Font Read more…

By Marc Durdin, 17 years ago

Web/Tech

Finally embeddable fonts work in all major browsers*

With the release of Firefox 3.5, all* the major browsers now support embeddable fonts – in one of two formats, TrueType/OpenType and EOT. This makes for a much smoother experience for visitors to multilingual websites. For an example, visit http://ethiopic.keymankeyboards.com/ on a machine without any Amharic/Ethiopic fonts installed, with IE6, Read more…

By Marc Durdin, 17 years ago