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> How did they control for whether the fonts are actually installed on the participants' computers or not? They could have used @font-face and distributed the
by dazbradbury 14y ago
> How did they control for whether the fonts are actually installed on the participants' computers or not?
They could have used @font-face and distributed the fonts with the page, but to be safer, they could have just created 6 different images, and distributed the passages as a png's.
I have no idea whether this was the approach - but if they do it in the future, this is certainly something to think about. Simply swapping the order of the font-family css line isn't going to cut it.
I look forward to this being researched more - Who thinks Google/Facebook have done this A/B test already? Maybe they could release the results!
- CrazedGeek 14y ago> They could have used @font-face and distributed the fonts with the page, Bingo. These CSS[0] and JS[1] are in the quiz. [0] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2891540/Fonts/fonts.css http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2891540/Fonts/fonts.css [1] http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/js/multimedia/bundles/20111122_errollfonts.js http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/js/multimedia/bundles/...