Re: [css-fonts] Proposal for standardizing font timeout behavior

On Oct 29, 2014, at 10:32 PM, Ilya Grigorik <igrigorik@gmail.com> wrote:

>> As defined, the 'optional' keyword would always be effectively
>> determined by whether a font had been loaded by a previous page,
>> since layout initiates font loads and paint follows shortly after
>> layout. So 'optional' in practice would be equivalent to "use the
>> the font if it's already been cached".
> 
> The fact that a resource may be in a local cache does not mean it is instantly available:

If you are on the second page of the site, and the font was already loaded on the first, then it is not really a matter of caching/retrieving, is it? I'd think the font would just be already loaded into the system, and just as available as any system font.