You might try a newer browser, like ten4fox, or Opera.
It could be an issue with the encoding they are using on the font (that's
the base64), or a compatibility issue with the CSS font tag. (i don't know
when they implemented full support for that) In any case, check the same
page in
I didn't know about this downloading, but yes, OpenType fonts are
large, so that could be what's going on.
Please send us (or me) some of the links, so I can see if they are
slow here too, and what kind of fonts they use: website-specific ones,
or more standard ones.
Then again, there are many
OpenType fonts are not really useful on the Mac, because the specific
OpenType features work only in Windows; Mac uses AAT, a different font
technology, at least up to Snow Leopard AAIK. That may be the reason
why Safari doesn't have those fonts installed.
In short: see what happens in a
Lately I have noticed that many web sites which I formerly accessed with no
problem now take forever to load if they load at all. The only commonality
seems to be the use of Open Type fonts in these web pages; the Activity
command reports the download of many items of the form
At 4:15 PM -0700 5/4/2012, skyking...@verizon.net wrote:
[1.25 GHz PowerMac G4, 1.5GB, OS X 10.4.11, Safari 4.1.3]
Lately I have noticed that many web sites which I formerly accessed
with no problem now take forever to load if they load at all. The
only commonality seems to be the use of Open
