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Re: Flash of unstyled text/Flash of unfonted content

From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:03:46 -0700 (PDT)
To: www-font@w3.org
Message-ID: <33305380.144061256191426359.JavaMail.root@cm-mail02.mozilla.org>

Thomas Phinney wrote:

> I expect the particular font you were seeing as fallback might be the
> Last Resort font, developed by Apple but made available to others:
> http://unicode.org/policies/lastresortfont_eula.html
> It can at least give an indicator of what codepoint range a missing
> character is from....

Nope, Firefox draws custom hex boxes with the character code in it.  We
played with using the Last Resort Font but that turned out to be slower
so we just stuck with the hexbox's.

John
Received on Thursday, 22 October 2009 06:04:20 GMT

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