<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: sniffing</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/sniffing.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2010-05-20T15:20:00+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Google Font Directory: Font Preview</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2010/May/20/fonts/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2010-05-20T15:20:00+00:00</published><updated>2010-05-20T15:20:00+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2010/May/20/fonts/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://code.google.com/webfonts/preview"&gt;Google Font Directory: Font Preview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Handy tool for trying out the 18 open source fonts Google have released, along with server-side browser sniffing technology that serves up the correct version (including for IE6). The browser sniffing makes me a bit uncomfortable—will it play well with intermediate caches? What happens if I save a local copy of a page and then open it up in a different browser?


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/fonts"&gt;fonts&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google"&gt;google&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered"&gt;recovered&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webfonts"&gt;webfonts&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sniffing"&gt;sniffing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="fonts"/><category term="google"/><category term="recovered"/><category term="webfonts"/><category term="sniffing"/></entry></feed>