Andrea on my.opera

I discovered that IE9 and Firefox (from the 3.5+ I guess) are not allowing to use webfonts that are not in the same domain that is calling them. This means that if you are on domain www.domain1.abc and you have an html/css source there calling for fonts that are on a www.domain2.abc then you are out of luck.

I did browse the web for a solution and it looks like most people is using .haccess for fixing this, putting this

<FilesMatch "\.(ttf|otf|eot|woff)$">
  Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin *
</FilesMatch>

in the file, so I tried too but it didn't help, I don't know why (see final edit)

Then I had an idea: what if the css that calls the webfont is on the same domain as the webfont? And it worked! So my tip for you is to write down a css snippet that defines the typeface, save it and put it on the server where you are hosting the webfont. For instance, this is what I'm using in my new website :

filename: cgothic.css

@font-face {
  font-family: "GOTHIC";
  src: url('GOTHIC.eot'); // for IE7 & IE8
  src: url('GOTHIC.woff') format('woff'), url('GOTHIC.ttf') format('truetype');
}

and all those files (GOTHIC.eot, GOTHIC.woff, GOTHIC.ttf, cgothic.css) are on the same domain. I can then link the css with the webfonts definition inside :

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://andreabianco.eu/cgothic.css" /> 

and get my cross-domain webfonts working also on browsers like IE9 and recent Firefox, which are applying more restrictive CSS rules, without a need for an .htaccess.

This solution is working for people that has the rights for putting the css in the place where fonts are, of course.

EDIT
So it seems the problem with the .htaccess approach was not caused by IE9 nor Firefox, but it did depend on my webspace server propagating the changes very slowly. This means that the workaround I used isn't actually needed

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