- From: Myles C. Maxfield via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:52:45 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
I'm generally skeptical of this proposal. In general, it's pretty scary to add more to the web platform that intentionally makes pages load _slower_. People _do_ base64 encode font data into `data:` urls in stylesheets today, presumably to get the kind of behavior proposed in this issue. There are 2 problems with this existing approach: 1. It's unwieldy for the website maintainer; they require a build step to put the font file into the CSS 2. Base64 introduces a ~3x size blowup What could convince me that this was a good idea is evidence of at least one author saying: 1. We use this technique today for small fonts 2. We want to use it for big fonts 3. But we can't because of the size blowup -- GitHub Notification of comment by litherum Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7271#issuecomment-1155858704 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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