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I'm glad you made this point. I'd go so far as to say that providing feedback to designers and product managers on the tradeoffs of their decisions is the #1 j
by eagsalazar2 11y ago
I'm glad you made this point. I'd go so far as to say that providing feedback to designers and product managers on the tradeoffs of their decisions is the #1 job of a good developer in their role as a member of a product team, on par with writing the code itself.
- madeofpalk 11y agoand 'tradeoffs' doesn't just mean 'webfont & slow' or 'arial & fast' - that's the easy way out. There's also the tradeoff of 'more development time/effort & webfont & fast; As a developer, I hate saying 'no' to something, because rarely are things just not possible. They just might take a while.
- LoSboccacc 11y agoBesides, it only optimizes the non recurring user case - 10x improvement is only for the first time visitor, which may or may not be a minority or even then may or may not have the font in cache from other places, which is not unlikely especially if he used a font from the most common cdns.