Re: Web font test cases: file linking vs. data URI embedding, CSS font stack subsets

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Richard Fink <rfink@readableweb.com> wrote:

> I have one other difference in implementation to report: IE will begin the
> download of the EOT's immediately upon encountering the @font-face
> declaration. The other browsers wait. It seems, but I am not yet sure - they
> wait until encountering an HTML element that is styled with the font. In
> other words, it isn't downloaded until the browser has confirmed the need
> for it.
>

For Firefox, that is correct.

Rob
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the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are
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own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah
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