@font-face not working in Firefox or IE - how can

Question

I am going nuts. @font-face won't work in IE or FireFox when I test on my client's server. My code is legit - it works just fine if I upload it to my own server, across all browsers. But no luck where I truly need it to work. I've tried re-ordering the CSS, and confirmed the fonts are indeed uploaded to the server.

I have read the info on the following links:
http://sixrevisions.com/css/font-face-web-fonts-issues/
http://paulirish.com/2009/bulletproof-font-face-implementation-syntax/

Based on info in the first article, I tried Google's WebFont loader in case that would fix things, but no luck. I also looked at the .NET panel in Firebug but it is greek to me. I tried updating the URL paths, removing the domain based on this post: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/forum/discussion/227/font-face-not-working-in-firefox-or-ie/p1

I don't know what else to try. At this point, I have given up and told the client they can't have their fancy font but I really want to understand WHY. Any help out there?

Here's the code I'm using generated by FontSquirrel:

        @font-face {
        font-family: 'Dax';
        src: url('/fonts/dax/dax-regular-webfont-webfont.eot');
        src: url('/fonts/dax/dax-regular-webfont-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
             url('/fonts/dax/dax-regular-webfont-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
             url('/fonts/dax/dax-regular-webfont-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
             url('/fonts/dax/dax-regular-webfont-webfont.svg#Dax') format('svg');
        font-weight: normal;
        font-style: normal;
    }
        body{
                    font-family: 'Dax';
                    font-size: 25px;
                                }

Another thought just occurred to me - my client has a redirect set up on their site. Could that be why it isn't working in those browsers?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

Answer 1

firefox requires all fonts be served from the same domain....so it sounds like a cross domain problem. if not, and either way you'll need this for ie (i'm assuming), you need to add woff file type to your .htaccess file. more here: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/blog/2010/11/troubleshooting-font-face-problems