This published on a site with five web font files: lato, lato bold, playfair display, oswald, and ionicons.
Also, title likely needs a "(2016)"
Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)
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Re: Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)
#52This is a very shortsighted view from developer who forget a web page is not only a bunch of text. Designer also play an important role to provide the subtle design element that developers don't value. By blocking all web fonts and fallback to only system font, you may still be able to read the text, but will completely missed the design.
What if the design is bad?
What if the developer is wrong?
Re: Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)
#53This is a very shortsighted view from developer who forget a web page is not only a bunch of text. Designer also play an important role to provide the subtle design element that developers don't value. By blocking all web fonts and fallback to only system font, you may still be able to read the text, but will completely missed the design.
Screw designers. They have ruined so many things over the years. It's time to take back control.
As both a developer and designer, this comment seems absurd to me. Art and information both play vital roles in the human experience.
Re: Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)
#54This is a very shortsighted view from developer who forget a web page is not only a bunch of text. Designer also play an important role to provide the subtle design element that developers don't value. By blocking all web fonts and fallback to only system font, you may still be able to read the text, but will completely missed the design.
What if the design is bad?
Get a better designer..
Re: Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)
#55This is a very shortsighted view from developer who forget a web page is not only a bunch of text. Designer also play an important role to provide the subtle design element that developers don't value. By blocking all web fonts and fallback to only system font, you may still be able to read the text, but will completely missed the design.
Some of the most memorable things I've read over the past year have been on Gemini which falls back to the system font or one picked by the user. I'm not saying that there's no place for design, but if your choice of webfont is a single point of failure within it you have no business calling yourself a designer.
Re: Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)
#56This is a very shortsighted view from developer who forget a web page is not only a bunch of text. Designer also play an important role to provide the subtle design element that developers don't value. By blocking all web fonts and fallback to only system font, you may still be able to read the text, but will completely missed the design.
Screw designers. They have ruined so many things over the years. It's time to take back control.
This is even more true about programmers.
Re: Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)
#57This is a very shortsighted view from developer who forget a web page is not only a bunch of text. Designer also play an important role to provide the subtle design element that developers don't value. By blocking all web fonts and fallback to only system font, you may still be able to read the text, but will completely missed the design.
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Re: Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)
#58This is a very shortsighted view from developer who forget a web page is not only a bunch of text. Designer also play an important role to provide the subtle design element that developers don't value. By blocking all web fonts and fallback to only system font, you may still be able to read the text, but will completely missed the design.
Funny you use the word “shortsighted” - for screen readers to work right your web page had better be a bunch of text.
Re: Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)
#59In a similar vein, LocalCDN is an extension to serve the most common javascript libraries from your browser instead of going to 3rd party servers, while there are edge cases when you use a local copy, I've rarely had an issue. https://codeberg.org/nobody/LocalCDN/ Removes integrity and crossorigin tags from embedded script and style elements to replace even more frameworks Font Awesome Google Material Icons jQuery Bo…
first time I've seen codeberg is this the github/gitlab alternative?
yes. they use gitea, btw.
Re: Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)
#60This is a very shortsighted view from developer who forget a web page is not only a bunch of text. Designer also play an important role to provide the subtle design element that developers don't value. By blocking all web fonts and fallback to only system font, you may still be able to read the text, but will completely missed the design.
I have never felt a page read better with custom fonts instead of local system fonts. I suppose the reason is because most local system fonts prioritize readability to a fault, while custom fonts are chosen for aesthetics (and aesthetics don't necessarily relate to readability). A webpage is a bunch of text, if your webpage can't be read with something like "font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;" then you are doin…
A good design should have good fallback. Yes. A random example will be bbc.com, where BBC Reith fallback to Arial, Helvetica Free Sans and San serif.
With modern web "application", the chances you see a bunch of text would either be the T&C page, documentation you read, or news website.
These days we shop online as much as we do physically, so I pick two random clothing brand, Uniqlo and Levis. To create the same experience you shop online as you do offline. These two websites employ their font instead of system font, Uniqlo Pro and Helvetica Now.
From a function point of view, blocking those font does not stop you from buying their clothes. But part of the user experience will be lost.
Disclaimer, I am engineer in the media industry and has no association with the two example websites.