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This is similar to how TypeKit serve their fonts. They wrote a blog post explaining their reasoning: http://blog.typekit.com/2011/08/11/better-web-font-loading-
by clarkdave 14y ago
This is similar to how TypeKit serve their fonts. They wrote a blog post explaining their reasoning: http://blog.typekit.com/2011/08/11/better-web-font-loading-with-javascript/ http://blog.typekit.com/2011/08/11/better-web-font-loading-w...
- goatforce5 14y agoFrom the linked page: "The fonts are served by Typekit, so you can be sure of high performance and stability."
- JoshTriplett 14y agoThat post claims that fonts don't have a fallback mechanism for when a font fails to load, but fonts have had fallbacks for as long as we've had CSS: font-family: "Obscure Font", "Common Font", sans-serif;
- ricardobeat 14y agoI don't know the current state of things, but a failed font download used to result in blank/transparent text in some browsers, ignoring the fallback font.