- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 23:14:10 +0100
- To: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- CC: Adam Twardoch <list.adam@twardoch.com>, www-style@w3.org
David Hyatt wrote: > At any rate the original question seemed to be more about whether you > show the glyphs of the fallback font or not before you load the real > font. I still think it's better visually to not show the wrong glyphs. > You're jumping visually in the exact same way in both cases, but in the > case where you show the glyphs you also have to replace them with the > right ones. That is going to be a much more dramatic and ugly change, > especially if a poor fallback font is chosen (or none is specified at all). Well, I can cite neither browser nor environment to back this up, but I have definitely seen (and I /think/ that the browser was IE) a browser display a fallback font (in the non-CSS sense) and later the "real" font, and that the effect was not unpleasant. Better (IMHO) than substituting "Greek" text (or white space) and then shewing the real glyphs, since one can start reading before the final rendered version is ready ... ** Phil.
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