- From: Levantovsky, Vladimir <Vladimir.Levantovsky@MonotypeImaging.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:10:43 -0400
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>, "Belov, Charles" <Charles.Belov@sfmta.com>
- CC: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
On Thursday, October 21, 2010 2:17 PM David Singer wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2010, at 11:13 , Belov, Charles wrote: > > > > I *do* want the fallback font. What I also want is to be able to > > specify in my user style sheet that if the download font can't > download > > within x seconds that I don't want it at all. > > sounds more like a UA preference than a CSS issue (i.e. a preference > rather than necessarily being in a style sheet) My personal user preference would always be to show the text with the fall-back font right away, and then re-render it with the downloaded font (like Brad mentioned, it feels like something is broken when no text is displayed on a page). For this same reason, I would do the same for the website I authored, to force the text display in a fall-back font and do not leave it up to UA to apply its own wisdom. Seems like a much desirable CSS issue to me. Regards, Vlad > > > I'd also like the UA to be intelligent enough not to replace the > > fallback font with the downloaded font while I am moving my cursor or > > typing, but perhaps that is too much to ask. > > > Me too. Ask away! I hate it when something takes a while, I start to > do something else while I wait...and then the screen 'pops' me while I > am typing or mousing! > > David Singer > Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc. >
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