@font-face being ignored by IE7

Question

I've created a @font-face css rule and all the font formats using Font Squirrel and works fine on all browsers I have tested so far, but not on IE7. The font seems to not be loaded at all.

You can see the site live at http://grupogamma.socialsnack.com/

The @font-face rules are on http://grupogamma.socialsnack.com/wp-content/themes/gamma/style.css and fonts are on http://grupogamma.socialsnack.com/fonts/

My css snippet as generated by Font Squirrel:

@font-face {
    font-family: 'UniversCondensedLight';
    src: url('/fonts/univers-condensedlight-webfont.eot');
    src: url('/fonts/univers-condensedlight-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('eot'),
         url('/fonts/univers-condensedlight-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
         url('/fonts/univers-condensedlight-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
         url('/fonts/univers-condensedlight-webfont.svg#webfonteM3WTEhs') format('svg');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;

}

@font-face {
    font-family: 'UniversCondensed';
    src: url('/fonts/univers-condensed-webfont.eot');
    src: url('/fonts/univers-condensed-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('eot'),
         url('/fonts/univers-condensed-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
         url('/fonts/univers-condensed-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
         url('/fonts/univers-condensed-webfont.svg#webfontPDfnu2z9') format('svg');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;

}

EDIT:

By using Wireshark I was able to verify the font .eot is indeed loaded, and a 200 OK is returned. The content-type is application/vnd.ms-fontobject. So the font is loaded, but just not used / not rendered properly.

Answer 1

It seems there was something else in my css making IE7 behave badly (shocker!)

Thankfully using some magic fairy dust (zoom: 1) solved the issue.

Answer 2

This approach i just did worked with IE7 and IE8. And yep.. font face declaration for IE7 is different, but simpler, compared to the "multiple-browser" way of declaring it. Here's my example. I added the fonts inside the "fonts" folder so you can see some "fonts/.." added in the code.

/* declaration of custom fontfaces */
/* first set of declaration fixes IE < v.9 issue */
@font-face { 
             font-family:"Open Sans Light";
             src:url("fonts/OpenSans-Light.eot?");
           }

/* if your browser is one of the latest ones, then it will recognize the code 
   below and will redeclare the font faces. 
   Since IE 7 and 8 do not recognize these declarations, 
   they will just bypass them. */
@font-face { 
             font-family:"Open Sans Light";
             src:url("fonts/OpenSans-Light.eot?") format("eot"),
                url("fonts/OpenSans-Light.woff") format("woff"),
                url("fonts/OpenSans-Light.ttf") format("truetype"),
                url("fonts/OpenSans-Light.svg#OpenSans-Light") format("svg");
             font-weight:normal;font-style:normal; 
           }