Bug 44404
| Summary: | [@font-face] show fallback text after a short time while a font downloads | ||
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| Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | Paul Irish <paulirish> |
| Component: | Text | Assignee: | Nobody <webkit-unassigned> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | Normal | CC: | hyatt, mitz, phiw2, simon.fraser, yuzo |
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | 528+ (Nightly build) | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
Paul Irish
Example: Go to http://people.mozilla.com/~jkew/woff/udhr-sample/index.html.
Choose the 3rd option for display; it's a *large* font download, so you see a
delay. The text will stay invisible the entire time.
This effect is exacerbated on mobile devices and in low-bandwidth situations, preventing the user from seeing any text.
The solution that's been considered in www-style is to use a fallback font (whatever is next in the stack) after a few seconds if the font hasn't downloaded/isn't ready.
Associated mozilla bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499292
More related detail:
http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/10/13/font-face-and-performance/
http://paulirish.com/2009/fighting-the-font-face-fout/
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Yuzo Fujishima
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 25207 ***