@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 b

Answer 1

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; 
           }

Answer 2

I found that I needed to add the file extension in IIS in the mime type as shown here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742440.aspx

Answer 3

I'm pretty sure it's a simple matter of "IE7 don't do that," as the kids say. Sitepoint's reference on @font-face, found at http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/at-fontface, indicates that IE only supports certain font formats via @font-face.

Answer 4

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.