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It is extremely difficult to deal with this issue on the developer's side. My solution has been to embed the font in the format the most commonly used directly

by jvzr 14y ago

It is extremely difficult to deal with this issue on the developer's side. My solution has been to embed the font in the format the most commonly used directly into the CSS. Then I Gzip it and put it on a CDN. My blog now loads under 200ms almost anywhere, and there is no flash of unstyled text. But I realize achieving those load times may be hard for a heavy web application/site.

cousin_it 14y ago
"Give thanks to nature, the bountiful, because it has made necessary things easy to procure, while things hard to obtain are not necessary." -- Epicurus
- huhtenberg 14y ago
  Arguably, things are promoted to being necessary if they are easy to procure. Otherwise they remain optional. -- V.Pupkin :)
  - cousin_it 14y ago
    Wow, from an evolutionary point of view that actually makes sense.
    - sp332 14y ago
      More like: if you require rare things, you are less likely to live long enough to reproduce.
bjustin 14y ago
How fast does it load on a cellular connection in the country it is hosted? It would be great if it loaded in <200ms on fast cell networks.
- jvzr 14y ago
  I'll try that tonight when I have access to my Mac (remote-debugging with dev tools). Until then, I can tell you approximately that the DNS shakeup takes 5 seconds, the server/CDN shakeup takes 1 more and the loading/painting is near-instantaneous. Will post solid numbers tonight.