{"id":80,"date":"2011-02-27T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jbarker.com\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2012-09-22T22:04:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T20:04:05","slug":"web-fonts-mime-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jbarker.com\/blog\/2011\/web-fonts-mime-types","title":{"rendered":"Web Fonts: No MIME Types, No Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a previous post, Correct MIME Type for CSS Web Fonts<\/a>, I discussed the lack of official, standards-based MIME types for various web fonts.<\/p>\n

In the 18 months since then, the state of MIME types for web fonts largely remains the same:<\/p>\n

Because there are no defined MIME types for TrueType, OpenType, and WOFF fonts, the MIME type of the file specified is not considered.<\/em>
\n\u2014 @font-face, Mozilla Developer Network<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Web<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

However, since then web font support in most major browsers has continued to improve. The lack of official MIME types for web fonts is not a major concern, and it has not slowed further adoption of web fonts in most major web browsers. One emerging font format is WOFF.<\/p>\n

WOFF<\/h3>\n

In late 2009, Mozilla debuted the Web Open Font Format (WOFF)<\/a> specification and soon shipped a working implementation in the first WOFF-capable web browser, Firefox 3.6<\/a>. The Mozilla Foundation was then joined by Microsoft Corporation<\/a> and Opera Software ASA in April 2010 as they submitted a specification for the WOFF file format<\/a> to the newly chartered W3C WebFonts Working Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Microsoft debuted support for WOFF in Internet Explorer 9 platform preview 3<\/a>. Opera added support for WOFF in Opera 11.10<\/a>. Google Chrome 5.0 added support for WOFF<\/a>. Curiously still absent among the major web browsers supporting WOFF today is Apple Safari.<\/p>\n

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In a previous post, Correct MIME Type for CSS Web Fonts, I discussed the lack of official, standards-based MIME types for various web fonts. In the 18 months since then, the state of MIME types for web fonts largely remains the same: Because there are no defined MIME types for TrueType, OpenType, and WOFF fonts, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,5],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-css","tag-fonts","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jbarker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jbarker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jbarker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbarker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbarker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbarker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbarker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jbarker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbarker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbarker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}