css-font-rendering

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I know old browsers will just ignore something like: `font-display: swap;` in the CSS, but there are cases where feature detection is useful. For example I want to test the...

superpoincare

Bedrock for CSS font-rendering?

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The CSS font-rendering proposal is an attempt to explain the bit of magic that goes on around web font rendering in browsers: > | Browser | timeout | fallback |...

KenjiBaheux

Explainer doc on when browsers actually render a first frame

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A key challenge in this spec space is that its poking up against an unspecified, undocumented, generally unkwown-by-anyone problem in the web: when does a browser actually decide to render...

natduca

If applied to a selector, what's the behaviour?

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``` css .whatever { font-rendering: mandatory 60s; } .whatever .foo { font-family: foo; } .whatever .bar { font-family: bar; } .whatever .blah { font-family: sans-serif; } ``` Assuming: - `foo`...

jakearchibald

Allow web developers to revive a font that didn't made it in time

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From http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Oct/0524.html "In other words, when a "swap" or "optional" font doesn't come in before the timeout, it gets an "inactive" bool set on it, which makes the current page...

KenjiBaheux

Separation of concerns

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We filmed a little show this morning where I spoke about this proposal. I had a hard time working out how I was going to explain what the number part...

jakearchibald

What's the behaviour of connection failure before the timeout?

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…or an invalid response before the timeout? I assume it just falls back?

jakearchibald