WOFF Fonts, what Are they and why should I care?

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Published on 2010-04-21T15:23:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 16:03 UTC
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So mozilla has proposed a new webfont, i'm not really into that world, but i want to keep myself up2date. So whats the great thing since even Microsoft is backing it, why should I as a webdev care?

Whats the difference from the old ones? Do we need another font system? In what situations should i use WOFF? Why not just stick to the existing ones?

Also a new tag called WOFF might be useful.

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