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WOFF Fonts, what Are they and why should I care?

So mozilla has proposed a new webfont, i'm not really into that world, but i want to keep myself up2date. So whats the great thing since even Microsoft is backing it, why should I as a webdev care? Whats the difference from the old ones? Do we need another font system? In what situations should i use WOFF? Why not just stick to the exi...

Generating TrueType file: Why always invalid?

Hello everbody, as said above, I wrote a little Python script that reads WOFF files (my own free fonts), extracts the embedded TrueType font data tables and rewrites them into TrueType font files. Well, it should theoretically. :-) I read the specs (WOFF -- TrueType) and did everything as stated there. Here I posted a short overview of...

Mime type for WOFF fonts?

What mime type should WOFF fonts be served as? I am serving truetype (ttf) fonts as font/truetype and opentype (otf) as font/opentype, but I cannot find the correct format for WOFF fonts. I have tried font/woff, font/webopen, and font/webopentype, but Chrome still complains: "Resource interpreted as font but transferred with MIME type...

Why is @font-face throwing a 404 error on woff files?

I'm using @font-face on my company's site and it works/looks great. Except Firefox and Chrome will throw a 404 error on the .woff file. IE does not throw the error. I have the fonts located at the root but I've tried with the fonts in the css folder and even giving the entire url for the font. If remove those fonts from my css file I don...