Re: @font-face and slow downloading

Hi, John,

Thank you for the reply.

Do you mean [OtherFont], rather than [LocalFont], should be used to
draw text temporarily while [URL] is loading?
(If you meant otherwise, what font should we use for the temporary drawing?)

Yuzo

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:41 PM, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote:

> Hi Yuzo,

> >  15  Example:
> >  16  <style>
> >  17  @font-face {
> >  18      font-family: samplefont;
> >  19      src: url([URL]), local([LocalFont]);
> >  20  }
> >  21  </style>
> >  22  <span style="font-family: samplefont, [OtherFont]">Hello</span>
> >  23
> >  24  If [LocalFont] is a valid local font, it is used as the fallback.
> >  25  Otherwise, [OtherFont] is used.

> I don't think this is such a good idea, it confuses load fallback with
> character fallback. The src list describes load fallback, the order in
> which font loading is attempted until a load succeeds. The font-family
> list defines character fallback order, the order in which fonts are
> searched for a given character.

> Your example could just as easily be written as:

>   <span style="font-family: samplefont, [LocalFont],
> [OtherFont]">Hello</span>

> The intent of local() is to allow the downloading of a given font to be
> skipped if a local equivalent is available.  That's not possible with
> just a font family list because of the way character fallback happens.

> > (BTW http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-fonts/ is the latest draft.)

> Thanks for mentioning that!

> Cheers,

> John