@font-face rejected!omg

[lim]

My custom font style is being cleaned as suspect (too many bytes). I've tried linking it, adding an external sheet, and encoding in base64, but no dice. I know it's a big weight (74kb in base64), but it's only in ttf/woff, so Internet Explorer users won't dl it anyway. And I don't have a banner on the page, which could be vastly huger.

Is there a way to get an exception for fonts? Could I buy more space? Is there a sneaky way round it, does anyone know? It's not an obnoxious font! It's only for the titles... I'm whining here, I realise. *g*

update Answered: the culprit is the font smiley method. Use ordinary Irish method instead.

Comments

[foxfirefey]

Previous discussion on this topic has taken place here:

http://layoutmakers.dreamwidth.org/5590.html

(Not that anybody else is expected to know this--I just remember it.)

[lim]

I don't mean to be rude, but i can't see how this linked discussion is relevant to my question. I'm not saying it doesn't! Just that I can't see it myself. It appears to be a short guide to using @font-face, which is not my problem.

My problem is that the DW custom css field is cleaning my css, ie, not printing it to the page on account of the large numbers of bytes. Am I in the wrong community?

[av8rmike]

If you're talking about seeing an error "suspect CSS: high bytes" in the source of your page, that has nothing to do with the size of your stylesheet or its fonts or graphics. It means that there's an illegal character in it that the CSS cleaner is rejecting. "High bytes" means that the illegal character has a hex value outside that of the standard ASCII printable characters. Make sure there aren't any "smart quotes" or other Unicode characters in the stylesheet.

[lim]

Ohh, so it's the smiley bulletproof! There's completely no reason to use the smiley bulletproof over the normal method. I have no issue with users using local fonts. Ok. GREAT! Thank you so much!

Ach, with base 64.../* suspect CSS: potential scripting: data: */

Okay *links external font* And hurrah! Ta ever so.

I did look in the FAQ etc before I posted and could find nothing. Hrm. Maybe I should email DW and ask them to put this in - a lot of people will probably be lazy and copypasta the default syntax from a Squirrel kit, as I confess I did.