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Use font-display, people. Required reading, “More than you ever wanted to know about font loading on the web”: https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/high-pe
by lelandfe 4y ago
Use font-display, people.
Required reading, “More than you ever wanted to know about font loading on the web”:
https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/high-performance-web-font-loading/ https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/high-performance-web...
Edit:
> Developers need to use a system font stack which loads fonts from the system itself instead of remote web fonts
IMO the takeaway is "self-host fonts, make sure they're small files, load early, and don't block render," not "only use native fonts"
- abirch 4y agoThank you goodperson!! You made my week!
- TecoAndJix 4y agoI love the progress bar at the top of that page. It is a better gauge of the required time commitment than the "7 minute read" or by glancing at the scrollbar block size, IMO.
- Angostura 4y agoIsn't it a shame that OS people have started making scroll bars so hard to see that someone is having to implement a less functional equivalent on-page.
- wwweston 4y agoWhich browsing contexts still feature the affordance of scrollbar blocksize? I thought UX as a profession had chosen to totally commit to the sin of removing it.
- 0des 4y agoUX is not a monolith
- madeofpalk 4y agoYou mean like a constantly visible scroll bar? Like any windows PC? Or Mac if you enable it?
- cylon13 4y agoScrollbar blocksize wouldn’t usually be useful for estimating content length anyway because of comment sections.
- contravariant 4y agoI'm not too fond of it, it's sacrificing 10% of the screen height to show redundant information.
- doliveira 4y agoIt's not really doing that, it's under the title bar.
- myrmidon 4y agoIt's broken/not working on current Firefox though :(
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- zeta0134 4y agoI usually use my element blocker to hide these things. They animate while I try to read and it's very distracting.
- bartread 4y agoIt is a good idea but not an original one: what it's really doing is reinventing the vertical scrollbar, but placing it horizontally, with a bunch of the functionality missing.
- midislack 4y agoEmacs tells you how far down you are, "3% of 80k" etc.
- LoveGracePeace 4y agoUnfortunately the light on dark theme made it hard to read, I could not progress past the first page.
- xigoi 4y agoJust use Dark Reader.