@font-face we are already doing wrong
Update - Now We Do Right Thanks everybody for your tests and contributions. For those interested about why we were doing wrong please read both post and comments but for those just interested about the best way so far to serve correctly one or more font-face, this is the hack: @font-face { // define the font name to use later as font-family font-family: "uni05_53"; // define the font for IE which totally ignores local() directive src: url(../font/uni05/uni05_53.eot); // use local to let IE jump this line and // redefine the src for this font in order to let // other clever browser download *only* this font rather than 2 src: local("uni05_53"), url(../font/uni05/uni05_53.ttf) format("truetype"); } You can test directly this technique in my HTML5 Prime Directives Test Page Credits Paul Irish for its Bulletproof @font-face syntax Mikuso, comments, for his suggestions about server configurations, instantly followed by Weston...