- From: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:37:02 -0700
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- CC: Edward O'Connor <eoconnor@apple.com>, www-style@w3.org
On 9/2/11 2:50 PM, L. David Baron wrote: > On Friday 2011-09-02 14:18 -0700, Edward O'Connor wrote: > >> It would be nice if there were a reliable way for Web authors to be >> notified when their @font-face resources have successfully loaded. >> Currently authors resort to several hacks to acheive this. >> >> One option would be to have objects in the CSSOM that correspond to each >> embedded resource referenced from within the loaded stylesheets. Authors >> could then attach event handlers to such objects, query their current >> state, etc. >> >> Another, perhaps more author-friendly option would be for some new event >> to be fired at the Document whenever a resource linked to in CSS gets >> loaded. The event would carry information about which resource(s) it >> refers to. >> > There's a good bit of discussion of this in > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471915 . It looks to > me (though I read it somewhat quickly) like consensus there was > tending towards: > * events when fonts load > * an API to ask whether all the fonts for an element/document have > been loaded > > I'm not sure how well that satisfies the<canvas> use cases, though. > Michael Deal posted some studies on Canvas and font loading: http://mudcu.be/journal/2010/11/unicode-profiling-project/
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