- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:25:23 +0200
- To: Spartanicus <spartanicus.3@ntlworld.ie>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Also sprach Spartanicus:
> > Downloadable fonts in general -
> > - Performance problems (download multi-megabyte CJK fonts?)
>
> A user prompt that shows the size of the font would be my preferred way
> to deal with the performance issue. This would have to be accompanied by
> a method so that a user isn't prompted again if they choose not to
> download fonts for example for that session.
I'm all for power to the user, but I think few would use the proposed
mechanism. A font family is very compressed data, roughly the size of
a photograph. A zipped font family for western languages is on the
order of 50k. Some are bigger, some are smaller -- just like images.
Therefore, I don't think they pose a big performance problem.
Naturally, in constrained environments, you may not want to download
fonts at all -- just like images often are ignored.
> As a user I'd want an option in my browser to prevent any fonts from
> ever being downloaded, and to prevent being prompted to do so.
Yes. Just like Shift-I in Opera toggles images on/off, there should be
similar functionality for webfonts.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Tuesday, 25 April 2006 18:25:31 UTC