Re: Is there any posibility of auto install font with jscript, html, or others?

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From: Dr John Stockton (spam_at_merlyn.demon.co.uk)
Date: 03/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:23:12 +0000

JRS: In article <tMSdnQYrKdUmb8ndRVn_iw@comcast.com>, seen in
news:microsoft.public.scripting.jscript, Randy Webb
<hikksnotathome@aol.com> posted at Sun, 14 Mar 2004 19:02:26 :-
>ELAź wrote:
>> I found there's no posibility of doing that. Thanks.
>
>And now you know why I gave no solution in my post, as theres no way to
>do it. The FAQ thats in my signature explains that Script has no access
>to the local file system which is whats required to install fonts. If
>you need a font on the users system, look into embedded fonts.

This is a jscript newsgroup.

AIUI, MS use that term to refer to a language implemented in their Web
browsers; one bearing a definite resemblance to ECMAscript.

A Web author should not be able to alter the set of fonts resident on a
web user's machine.

But an MS browser can run HTML locally, with jscript in it. There's not
the same objection to the font set being changed this way.

Without using a browser, Windows can run WSH, command-line or GUI; and
WSH can run both VBscript and jscript (give or take any possible
terminological quibbles. It appears that, in the adjacent .vbscript
newsgroup, people do all sorts of things with vbscript; things which
could well include font-loading. It also appears that jscript in WSH,
though less written about, may have similar powers.

Therefore, ISTM that the correct answer for the excessively terse and
non-(usenet-)standards-compliant OP may well be "Yes, under some
circumstances compatible with your original question as asked."
  

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