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The Web Embedding Fonts Tool, or WEFT, is Microsoft's utility for generating embeddable web fonts.. WEFT is used by webmasters to create 'font objects' that are linked to their web pages so that users using Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser will see the pages displayed in the font style contained within the font object.
Web typography. Web fonts allow Web designers to use fonts that are not installed on the viewer's computer. Web typography, like typography generally, is the design of pages – their layout and typeface choices. Unlike traditional print-based typography (where the page is fixed once typeset ), pages intended for display on the World Wide Web ...
Font embedding is a controversial practice because it allows copyrighted fonts to be freely distributed. The controversy can be mitigated by only embedding the characters required to view the document ( subsetting ). This reduces file size but prohibits adding previously unused characters to the document. Because of the potential for copyright ...
The Web Open Font Format ( WOFF) is a font format for use in web pages. WOFF files are OpenType or TrueType fonts, with format-specific compression applied and additional XML metadata added. The two primary goals are first to distinguish font files intended for use as web fonts from fonts files intended for use in desktop applications via local ...
In Microsoft QBasic, there is an Easter Egg where the developers credits can be seen at start up, printed in colorful text, flying in one letter at a time from every corner. [36] Acid1 is included as an offline Easter Egg, accessible by typing 'about: tasman', in Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS with the text replaced by the names of the ...
Trident (software) Trident [1] [2] [3] (also known as MSHTML [1] [2] [5]) is a proprietary browser engine for the Microsoft Windows version of Internet Explorer, developed by Microsoft . MSHTML debuted with the release of Internet Explorer 4 in 1997. For versions 7 and 8 of Internet Explorer, Microsoft made significant changes to MSHTML's ...
Core fonts for the Web was a project started by Microsoft in 1996 to create a standard pack of fonts for the World Wide Web.It included the proprietary fonts Andalé Mono, Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana and Webdings, all of them in TrueType font format packaged in executable files (".exe") for Microsoft Windows and in ...
Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer[ a] (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer[ b] and Windows Internet Explorer, [ c] commonly abbreviated as IE or MSIE) is a retired series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft that were used in the Windows line of operating systems. While IE has been discontinued on most Windows editions, it ...