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Opera had just announced an Alpha of Opera 10, with some excellent support for new and emerging standards, including one of my favorites, font linking.

Currently, Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox 3.1, and now Opera 10 support font linking via the @font-face mechanism. Internet Explorer has in fact supported this feature for many years, using the EOT format (which is now a proposed W3 recommendation), while Safari and Firefox support TrueType and OpenType but not EOT. Opera supports now supports these same formats (but still not EOT as far as I can make out).

There’s more there too, including performance improvements, RGBa colors, and more.

For more, read Chris Mill’s blog post at Opera’s developer centre, and grab a download to see it in action.