What do you guys think of the HTML 5 language? I can't wait to use the video tag. I hope all the places that use flash convert over to this and Adobe shrivels up into a little ball and dies.
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Anonymous2009-05-28 15:19
It's really easy to predict what's gonna happen. It's already started actually.
The next version of every browser that matters supports proper embed.
Most foundries will continue to disallow any form of embed. They'll spend tons of time C&Ding kids stealing their fantasy and handwriting faces for their personal pages.
A few hipster foundries will say they're cool with EOT, but not with normal import.
While the w3c will eventually bow down and make EOT a standard, it will take at least 3 more years. Good luck getting Webkit and Opera to play along until then.
Then a few guys making shitty useless fantasy fonts but who understand how the world works will license their fonts for normal embed, and they will release a few new ones for free. Every blog in the world will post about it and post a code example that will be posted all over the world.
For a year, the whole web will be filled with every Larabie font ever. It will be so bad, everyone will ask how to turn off font embed. No browser will want to add support for EOT after that debacle.
Then serious foundries will be forced to either allow embed, or take a serious hit in sales. Since it's legal to make almost identical copies of fonts so long as the name differs, people will just go all Arial on the ones that don't start allowing embed fast enough.