Confirmed: Pathetic Fonts Support on Mobile Safari
It’s unbearable. There are people ranting about this long ago. But, I waited iOS4 in hope of Apple fixing these issues. Well, they didn’t. Fonts support in iPhone, iPod, iPad is truly woeful.
These iDevices have a really limited font library, which isn’t helped by mobile safari’s poor support of font embedding (where font types such as OTF, TTF, WOFF aren’t properly/completely rendered). The only embeddable font type is SVG font. Geez, how many times we see SVG fonts? Plus, it’s probably only good for Western languages. Many existing Asian fonts are already having difficulty converting to SVG!
I thought Apple love open standards. Come on. This is CSS3 font embedding! And, since when Steve lost his love for Typography?
