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I think the easiest solution would be just not to use web fonts at all. Do you need fancy fonts on a website with technical documentation? I think you don't but

I think the easiest solution would be just not to use web fonts at all. Do you need fancy fonts on a website with technical documentation? I think you don't but sadly PHP developers added a whole megabyte of fonts to PHP manual. As a result one has to wait until the fonts are loaded to see the text. And web fonts are often poorly rendered on Windows. I want an option in Chromium that would allow disabling web fonts by default and enabling them on a per-site basis (like it has an option for disabling JS). And what surprises me most is that mobile browsers (which are often used on slow and metered connections) do not have such options at all. I remember old Opera browser that is now long gone had a lot of options to make user experience better on poor connections (and a builtin domain block list). Well, at those times internet users had higher average IQ and now typical Internet user would not even understand what is the meaning of "disable JS".

stomato 10y ago
> I think the easiest solution would be just not to use web fonts at all. Here's another option: plain text. That's right. You can have webpages that are plain text without any HTML formatting, and they will render. Here is an example file: This is text. This is the absolute best way of presenting web content. No one will complain.
- codedokode 10y ago
  The difference between web fonts and HTML/CSS is that HTML loads progressively and markup doesn't weight more than all other resources. So I am ok with both plain text and HTML pages but not ok with fonts until browser vendors make a better implementation and make them optional.
- wingerlang 10y ago
  > This is the absolute best way of presenting web content. No one will complain. Not sure if this is a joke or not, most people would complain.
mos_basik 10y ago
>I want an option in Chromium that would allow disabling web fonts by default and enabling them on a per-site basis. It's not a native solution, but apparently the extension uBlock Origin has a setting to block web fonts (people have mentioned it in this thread). I use uBlock Origin as my adblocker, and it is a much better experience in terms of performance and usability than AdBlock ever was - so I wouldn't be surprised if the font option was equally well implemented. On mobile currently, but will try it out when I get to my computer. As for toggling, there is a nice simple button that enables/disables the adblocking on the active site. I'm hoping it affects the font setting too. PS: that's uBlock Origin, not just uBlock.

stomato 10y ago

> I think the easiest solution would be just not to use web fonts at all. Here's another option: plain text. That's right. You can have webpages that are plain text without any HTML formatting, and they will render. Here is an example file: This is text. This is the absolute best way of presenting web content. No one will complain.

codedokode 10y ago
The difference between web fonts and HTML/CSS is that HTML loads progressively and markup doesn't weight more than all other resources. So I am ok with both plain text and HTML pages but not ok with fonts until browser vendors make a better implementation and make them optional.
wingerlang 10y ago
> This is the absolute best way of presenting web content. No one will complain. Not sure if this is a joke or not, most people would complain.

mos_basik 10y ago

>I want an option in Chromium that would allow disabling web fonts by default and enabling them on a per-site basis. It's not a native solution, but apparently the extension uBlock Origin has a setting to block web fonts (people have mentioned it in this thread). I use uBlock Origin as my adblocker, and it is a much better experience in terms of performance and usability than AdBlock ever was - so I wouldn't be surprised if the font option was equally well implemented. On mobile currently, but will try it out when I get to my computer. As for toggling, there is a nice simple button that enables/disables the adblocking on the active site. I'm hoping it affects the font setting too. PS: that's uBlock Origin, not just uBlock.