jquery.webfonts
jQuery based webfonts extension. This is a project by Wikimedia foundation's Language Engineering team
Introduction
jQuery WebFonts extension adds font embedding capability to jquery using the WebFonts technology. The extension provides a flexible way to choose font from a font repository and apply on html elements.
Features
- Flexible font repository. The extension can work with any font repository file system. See more..
- Provides many APIs to customize and extend. See more...
- Applies font based on the html
lang
attribute of the elements - Make sure the font defined using
font-family
style for any elements, either using inline css or external css' available for the reader without any extra code. See Examples
For examples, API, and usage information, please visit wiki
Test
If you have python installed, run
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
or, In case you have python3
python3 -m http.server
or, with PHP
php -S localhost:8000
and, you can run tests from
http://localhost:8000/tests/
Since some browsers will not be able to load JSON using AJAX if you run the tests as local files (file://), so you should run them from a web server (http://).
License
You may use jquery.webfonts under the terms of either the MIT License or the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 or later.
See GPL-LICENSE and MIT-LICENSE for details.
Developers
This project is part of Wikimedia Foundation's Project Milkshake. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_Milkshake.
For details on how Wikimedia is using this extension for providing webfonts to wikis, read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/WebFonts