There has been some confusion about the support of @font-face in Google Chrome. The above screenshot was taken with a beta version that had support for @font-face, but the support disappeared again in later beta versions. As it turns out, support for @font-face is build into Chrome (since it is build on WebKit) but it is currently disabled for security reasons. You can active it if you run the executable with a command line switch of: --enable-remote-fonts. The support for @font-face might be activated again by default once the security issues are resolved.
2009/04/16 at 10:26 AM
Don’t forget Camino 2.0betapre3, it also supports webfonts!
2009/07/08 at 9:51 PM
Opera 10 beta doesn’t seem to support OTF fonts, only TTF. And in Chromium 3 I don’t see any web fonts. Is @font-face only in Chromium 2, not 3?
2009/07/28 at 9:00 AM
I accessed this page and in fact am posting from Chrome 3.0.195.1
It doesn’t pick up fonts from any of the pages I have been playing with or from any online demos that I have come across either. IE 8 is the same and shows the default fonts.
It looks fine in Firefox 3.5.1
2009/09/08 at 8:21 PM
Ralf – There is apparently some confusion regarding the switch name. The actual switch is “–enable-remote-font” (singular).
Source
Note: Incorrectly referred to in line item 1, but correctly referred to under “TEST”, as my own tests with winChrome verify.
2009/09/08 at 8:23 PM
LOL … I always make work for you … can you please change the switch to “–enable-remote-font” (forgot the double dash).
Thanks.
-stk
2009/09/08 at 8:24 PM
Weird … your comment system is munging the double dash, converting it to a single dash! :-p
2009/09/23 at 11:59 PM
Indeed there is some confusion about if the switch should be in singular or plural. So I went to the authoritative source: the [url=http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc]current source code[/url] used when compiling the browser. The answer? Plural: “–enable-remote-fonts”.
2009/09/24 at 12:12 AM
Btw, for users of MSIE6,7 and 8, there are an awesome free plugin: the Crome Frame plugin! It’s an alternative to switch to another browser. After the plugin is installed, sites who send a special meta-header will be rendered by the chrome engine instead of the normal one! http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/