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These tests check whether browsers support the downloading of TrueType/OpenType fonts using subsetted .eot fonts with the @font rule, particularly for complex script support. The text chosen covers a number of typical features occuring in complex fonts.
Some of the text used for testing relies on the availability of operating system support for complete rendering. To neutralise this effect, the main test criterion assesses whether the downloaded font styling looks the same as an installed version of the font. The tests also look at how the installed version of the font compares with a reference graphic. In some cases, two fonts are tested for each piece of text, in the hope to cross-check for font-specific issues.
See the results below for user agents tested. This section summarizes the results of those tests.
Of the browsers tested, only IE7 currently supports EOT webfont downloads. There were, however, some unexpected issues with Khmer and Arabic script rendering related to dropped character glyphs, so EOT does not appear to work for those scripts at the moment.
IE8 beta doesn't support EOT fonts at all, at present, although apparently that is in the plan for a future release. In addition, rendering of the installed font text failed for several scripts. Switching to compatability mode fixed all the problems.
As a general summary, this means that it is still difficult to use webfonts in this way for certain non-Latin scripts.
These are results for the latest versions of each browser tested. A green background (yes) means the browser displayed the text using the linked font in the same way as the text using the installed font; orange background (partially) means that the browser was obviously attempting to use the linked font, but some of the rendering was not correct; red (no) means that the browser did not use the linked font.
The check and cross marks are used to indicate the following: green means that the installed font text was the same as the reference graphic; orange means that there were some differences of rendering, but the same font was used. A red cross means that the installed font text was substantially different from the reference graphic. If a check mark is the same color as the background it is omitted.
| UA | IE | Firefox | Chrome | Opera | Safari | Safari | IE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| version | 7 | 3.0.1 | 0.2.149.30 | 9.51 | 3.1.2 | 3.1.2 | 8 Beta |
| OS | XP | XP | XP | XP | Mac OS 10.4.11 | XP | XP |
| date | 20080907 | 20080907 | 20080907 | 20080907 | 20080918 | 20080907 | 20080907 |
| 1 Alphabetic script (Georgian) | yes | no  |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
| 2 Alphabetic script (Armenian) | yes | no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
| 3 Complex scripts (Khmer 1) | partially  1 |
no |
no |
no |
no  9 |
no |
no 6 |
| 4 Complex scripts (Khmer 2) | partially 2 |
no |
no |
no |
no 9 |
no |
no 6 |
| 5 Complex scripts (Hindi 1) | yes | no |
no |
no |
no 10 |
no |
no |
| 6 Complex scripts (Hindi 2) | yes | no |
no |
no |
no 10 |
no |
no |
| 7 Shaping scripts (Arabic 1) | partially 3 |
no |
no |
no |
no11 | no 4 |
no |
| 8 Shaping scripts (Arabic 2) | partially 3 |
no |
no |
no |
no 11 | no |
no |
| 9 Shaping scripts (Urdu) | partially 3 |
no |
no |
no |
no 11 | no 5 | no 7 |
| 10a Mixed scripts (Thai) | yes | no |
no |
no |
no 12 |
no |
no 8 |
| 10b Mixed scripts (Tibetan) | yes | no |
no |
no |
no 13 |
no |
no 8 |
| 10c Mixed scripts (Myanmar) | yes | no |
no |
no |
no 14 |
no |
no 8 |
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Content first published 2008-09-23. Last substantive update 2008-09-23 11:45 GMT. This version 2008-09-23 11:45 GMT
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