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Re:Kottke.org redesigns using private beta of Hoefler & Frer... by smackfu on Monday March 05, 2012 @01:51PM (#3667752)
It's not too bad on an iPhone viewpoint wise, but the fancy font rendering seems to be rendering blank spaces before it downloads the font or whatever it is doing, which is a bit odd.
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Re:Kottke.org redesigns using private beta of Hoefler & Frer... by ugh on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @05:12PM (#3673175)
That’s not fancy, that’s standard Safari behavior. Safari waits until the font is downloaded until it displays text. Some other browsers display text immediately and switch the font later. There are good arguments for both approaches.
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