Really looking forward to being able to use Archer and Ideal Sans on the web. My work is about to become a whole lot prettier.
Kottke.org redesigns using private beta of Hoefler & Frere-Jones webfont service
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Re: Kottke.org redesigns using private beta of Hoefler & Frere-Jones webfont service
#12Rather poor performance on going to the front page, http://kottke.org/ The initial viewport comes up fast, but it takes over 10 seconds to finish loading and be able to scroll. Wonder what is causing that? Maybe hanging while it is filling in the Facebook and Twitter buttons on each post?
Jason embeds content from all over the place. If you load the page while running Chrome's developer tools open to the network tab, you can see the wild variety of hosts being touched. Many of these will involve separate DNS lookups and TCP/IP connection overhead. I've always viewed it as a consequence of his format, and well worth the wait.
He doesn't mirror the images? That seems... risky.
Re: Kottke.org redesigns using private beta of Hoefler & Frere-Jones webfont service
#13Good to see Kottke still churning out top posts after so many years. But... a little disappointed that an announced redesign like this does not include support for responsive/liquid/mobile-first viewport width. >> I made the reading column wider (640px) ... Hard-coded pixel widths are not friendly to the proliferation of mobile devices and screen sizes these days.
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.
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.
Re: Kottke.org redesigns using private beta of Hoefler & Frere-Jones webfont service
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Jason embeds content from all over the place. If you load the page while running Chrome's developer tools open to the network tab, you can see the wild variety of hosts being touched. Many of these will involve separate DNS lookups and TCP/IP connection overhead. I've always viewed it as a consequence of his format, and well worth the wait.
He doesn't mirror the images? That seems... risky.
He doesn't need to. The content he embeds is designed to be embedded.