FixedSys & Terminal Fonts

Question

How come the font FixedSys and Terminal ONLY work on FireFox and not on any other major browser?

What's the deal? Is it because they are system fonts or am I missing something?

Thanks

Answer 1

I know this is old, but I converted http://www.fixedsysexcelsior.com/ to a Webfont a while back.. the files are here:

http://jollo.org/archive/doir/fixedsys

css usage is:

@font-face {
font-family: 'FixedsysExcelsior301Regular';
src: url('fsex300-webfont.eot');
src: url('fsex300-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
     url('fsex300-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
     url('fsex300-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
     url('fsex300-webfont.svg#FixedsysExcelsior301Regular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
-webkit-font-smoothing:aliased;
font-smooth:never;
}

Firefox does have a little bit of trouble rendering it in some instances.. but this appears to be a bug with many webfonts (fonts appear blurry when the browser is a certain size, normal when another size.