title: Portable web font technology
body: <p>After reading the question on <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/410461/font-typeface-selection-for-the-web">web font typeface selection</a>, it occurred to me that portable network fonts were the answer.  We used to use a package by Bitstream to generate subsets of needed fonts to embed in web pages so that it looked the same in every browser on every platform.  When I Googled this, I found an RFC that looks like it's owned by Bitstream, and not much else.</p>
  
  <p>What happened to this technology?  Am I just not seeing it?  Or did it disappear because it was proprietary?  If so, what's on the horizon for this technology?</p>