Microsoft has submitted Embedded OpenType (Eot) to W3C and a slimy campaign for Eot has been launched. Eot is a digital restriction management (drm) layer on top of normal TrueType/Opentype files; Eot ties a font file to a certain web page or site and prevents reuse by other pages/sites.

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has supported Eot for years, but it has largely been ignored due to the clumsiness of having to regenerate font files when a page changes . Now that other browsers are moving to support normal TrueType and OpenType on the web (Safari, Opera, Mozilla, Prince), W3C is faced with a question: should they bless Microsoft’s Eot for use on the web? Or, should they encourage normal font files on the web and help break Microsoft’s forgotten monopoly?”

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