Crossbrowser embedding fonts

How to do it? Why ist it rarely seen?

[waldemar]

CSS' great formatting flexibility invites webdesigners to use their own embedded fonts and this needs to be done in two ways:

For IE .eot file is required.(Should be created using WEFT tool)
For NS .pfr file is required.(Should be created using Portable Font Reader Software)

[webmasterworld.com...]

While I'm downloading the tools, two question arise:

- How can a stylesheet contain BOTH versions of the font?

- If it can be done (I guess at least via "@import"), why is almost nobody using this technique? (Besides the little longer download time...)

[waldemar]

Ok, ...embedded fonts are not supported by Netscape >= 6,7 and Opera unless you install the WebFont Plugin. I guess I can drop the subject (the hope for a more unique design)...

[drbrain]

In CSS2 you would do this with the @font-face font descriptor (@font-face { src: url(/path/to/font) }) which was removed for CSS2.1 because it wasn't widely implemented (if at all).