The article from hacks.mozilla.org is entitled Web Open Font Format for Firefox 3.6
This article discusses using Web Open Font Format (WOFF) font files with CSS to specify fonts for use in web pages. WOFF files are stored on the web server, and downloaded to the client browser based on URL specified by the @font-family CSS rule(s).
From the article:
This format has two main advantages over raw TrueType or OpenType fonts.
- It is compressed, which means that you will typically see much smaller download sizes compared with raw TrueType or OpenType fonts.
- It contains information that allows you to see where the font came from – without DRM or labeling for a specific domain – which means it has support from a large number of font creators and font foundries.
