Comments on: Opera Admits @Font-Face Bugs In Opera 10

By: Richard Fink

Richard Fink — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:14:58 +0000

@alaor
>At least the italic problem seems disappeared with 10.6.
I’m not seeing it on Windows. Still no synthesized italics. Or bolding. Is that what you’re referring to?

By: Alaor

Alaor — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:56:44 +0000

At least the italic problem seems disappeared with 10.6.

By: Richard Fink

Richard Fink — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:23:24 +0000

I haven’t updated yet but will today and do some checking.
Do you have a link to share on this?

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:25:43 +0000

ive just dowloaded the 10.60 update and i am still having problems with a personaly created font using @font face code, which by the way none of the other browsers have any problems with at all, so it would seem this problem is ongoing!!

By: Richard Fink

Richard Fink — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:48:37 +0000

Thanks Patrick.
I’ll check it out.
Not sure what you mean by the “workaround suggested” doesn’t make any difference, though. Only on the second tab, or on any tab, or what?
The Opera devs must be pretty aggravated over all this and I’m sure they are most definitely working on it. Of that I have little doubt. And, thankfully, those of us who use Opera – even if it’s only a part of the development process – are frequent upgraders so let’s hope this situation turns out to be very temporary.
Regards, rich

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:14:28 +0000

This is not the only bug that Opera has. I made a screencast showing that if you use two different tabs of the same page, the second one does not display the font:
http://screenr.com/bWN

And the workaround suggested by Opera does not make any difference.

Pat

By: Richard Fink

Richard Fink — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:41:08 +0000

@op
I’m using the latest build of Opera 10 on Windows XP. OTF files don’t seem to be a problem.

By: op

op — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:20:09 +0000

also opera 10 doesn’t render otf at all (depending the build)

By: Enrique Ramírez

Enrique Ramírez — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:36:30 +0000

@Richard
Agreed. Then again, I’m quite possitive that, when @font-face booms, Opera will be ready to go.

Not saying it’s not important. Just saying it’s not critical.

@Tor
Man, that’s awesome. I was going to search for a way to get my .eot files done, but you’ve just saved me a couple of minutes googling. Awesome.

By: Richard Fink

Richard Fink — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:28:18 +0000

Tor,
Love your page, dog. Made me laugh. And useful, too, a double win.
My musical taste runs more to Be-Bop (as in Charlie Parker, circa 1950) than Hip-Hop, but I’ve got to start listening more, really.
(I’m a musician and I find something to like in just about any style.)
Anyway, I put together a page of screen shots showing the differences in rendering between Opera 10 and FF 3.5 for your Design Commandments page:
Web Font Rendering Analysis
Needless to say, there should not be a difference in bolding.
RE: Launching Chrome with Web Fonts Enabled – Paul Irish has done the work. Check out:
http://paulirish.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/chrome-exe-remote-fonts-switch.png
http://paulirish.com/2009/chrome-and-font-face-a-summary/
Cheers, Rich