Embed font question

I read:"TO embed a font for I.E use @fontface. The src url points to a specific version of the font that can be downloaded by site visitors"So I am told to convert fonts to this special format for this tag i need a prog. but it only works for I.E.Are programs out now to support this format in Mozilla based browsers or is there a different method there?

no. microsoft introduce this may be 5-6 years ago and that time it only works on ie and the user must used microsoft os, and the font extension is in .ttf(true type font) i think and no need to conversion

suggestion: you can use css fonts like this

all.my_fonts { font-family: r3d special, Arial, Tahoma; }..........<em class="my_fonts">Print this</em>

if the user have the first font "r3d special" the browser will use that, if that font is not installed the browser use the "Arial" font, if Arial doesn't exist the "Tahoma" font will be used, or if all three not exist the default font will be use(in user settings).

anyway i hate installing fonts from download and most users too (i guess)

You can use @font-face with WOFF files to ensure browser compatibility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Open_Font_Format

Of course browser compatibility here means IE9+, Chrome, Firefox 3.6+ and Opera 11.10+. So no IE8 or anything less recent, but it's quite new and at least Microsoft backs it