Brion Vibber schrieb: > El 5/11/09 5:04 PM, Ariel T. Glenn escribió: >> Στις 11-05-2009, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 16:15 -0700, ο/η Brion Vibber >>> Since download time is a concern, we'd generally be looking for smaller >>> font sets, such as one that covers specifically the language of an >>> individual wiki, rather than high-coverage fonts like that or Code 2000. >>> >>> (eg a Tamil font for ta.wikipedia.org, a Canadian Aboriginal Syllabary >>> font for iu.wikipedia.org, etc) >>> >>> -- brion >> Except for the Wiktionaries, given that they will include lemmas from >> (eventually) all languages. For an indication of the size of the >> problem even now, folks might look at the entry for >> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dictionary ... > > Hmmmm, well forcing a large automated font download on every reader's > first visit probably isn't ideal. :) Short of crafting embedded type > subsets for each page using just the required characters I'm not sure > there's a good way to treat that case other than offering extra fonts > for download. > > -- brion
How about a small button somewhere? "download fonts now!". Could be hidden if no "special" chars are visible on the page. -- daniel _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
