https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33174
Santhosh Thottingal <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|Unprioritized |Normal Severity|normal |minor --- Comment #1 from Santhosh Thottingal <[email protected]> 2011-12-19 11:03:21 UTC --- This is called FOUT, Flash Of Unformattes/Unstyled Text. And inherent with webfont technology, eventhough browsers are trying to reduce the impact on user experience. When you visit a page, the font is also getting downloaded just after browser understand that a font need to be downloaded. Firefox shows the page in default font, and when font is downloaded, it shows the text in that font. This causes a flickering in the screen, but it is not loading twice, its rendering twice. Some other browsers just display a blank space for the text and start rendering it only when font is downloaded, so there is no double rendering, but blank page for a few (milli)seconds. But this behavior happens only when you download the font for fist time, ie when you visit a wiki with webfont for first time. Second time onwards browsers should use the font from cache. Read more about it on http://paulirish.com/2009/fighting-the-font-face-fout/ Yes, time taken for page will be a little extra than the time taken for page without webfont. But all these are much visible only at the first use of webfont. when you navigate to other wikipages, it will be normal since font is not getting downloaded and used from cache. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
