Mozilla Throws Its Weight Behind Improving Web Type, Adopts WOFF for Firefox

October 20, 2009
http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Mozilla_Throws_Its_Weight_Behind_Improving_Web_Type__Adopts_WOFF_for_Firefox

In this article written by Michael Calore he talks about how Mozilla which owns Firefox have adapted a new method called Web Open Font Format (WOFF) for the newest version of firefox (3.6) due out at the end of this year. By adopting this method Firefox users will hopefully be able to see an even greater diversity of fonts on web pages. What makes WOFF great is that WOFF fonts are compressed, so they download faster, and they include support for tags and other unencrypted metadata. There are still some concerns over how exactly its going to work for like older machines.

This article relates to this class in that as we did a survey earlier in the semester and found that most of the students in our class use Firefox as their browser. As a matter of fact I'm currently posting this blog on blogger using Firefox. Blogs can look better and feel better with different variations of fonts but then again next semesters class are going to be the lucky ones using Firefox 3.6.