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jquery.webfonts

jQuery based webfonts extension. This is a project by Wikimedia foundation's Language Engineering team

Introduction

jQuery WebFonts extension adds font embedding capability to jquery using the WebFonts technology. The extension provides a flexible way to choose font from a font repository and apply on html elements.

Features

Flexible font repository. The extension can work with any font repository file system. See more..
Provides many APIs to customize and extend. See more...
Applies font based on the html lang attribute of the elements
Make sure the font defined using font-family style for any elements, either using inline css or external css' available for the reader without any extra code. See Examples

For examples, API, and usage information, please visit wiki

Test

If you have python installed, run

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

or, In case you have python3

python3 -m http.server

or, with PHP

php -S localhost:8000

and, you can run tests from

http://localhost:8000/tests/

Since some browsers will not be able to load JSON using AJAX if you run the
tests as local files (file://), so you should run them from a web server
(http://).

## License

You may use jquery.webfonts under the terms of either the MIT License or the
GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 or later.

See GPL-LICENSE and MIT-LICENSE for details.

## Developers

This project is part of Wikimedia Foundation's Project Milkshake.
See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_Milkshake.

For details on how Wikimedia is using this extension for providing webfonts to
wikis, read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/WebFonts

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