webfont-dl
Dev tools
web font tooling
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
2 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Idea: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Inlining fonts as data URLs is an interesting approach to avoid flash
From 1 comment
I was aware of the technique of hiding the body, but that for me is unacceptable. It causes further delays to get content on the page. This inlining of the fonts is quite…
deanclatworthy on HN
Objections
Inlining fonts increases first-request payload size
From 1 comment
The fonts themselves are cached for a "long time", but the CSS that links the font to a @font-face declaration expires far more frequently (ie: less than a day). In my testing on…
mmastrac on HN
Hiding body until font loads delays content
From 1 comment
I was aware of the technique of hiding the body, but that for me is unacceptable. It causes further delays to get content on the page. This inlining of the fonts is quite…
deanclatworthy on HN
Requests
Way for clients to cache webfonts by checksum
From 1 comment
I was aware of the technique of hiding the body, but that for me is unacceptable. It causes further delays to get content on the page. This inlining of the fonts is quite…
deanclatworthy on HN
Questions
Does inlining actually avoid the flash of invisible text?
From 1 comment
Is it really so that inline fonts avoids the flash? I have not read this anywhere until now. Source?
deanclatworthy on HN
Does browser cache get shared across sites using the same Google font?
From 1 comment
I'm curious. If visitors visit a site using a font served by Google fonts and visit another using the same font, will it use the cache from the browser? because if yes, then i…
hubot on HN
What are the font licensing implications of redistribution?
From 1 comment
Does anyone know what implications this has on licensing of the fonts? I assume there's a restricted redistribution clause for some of the fonts
Joe8Bit on HN
Alternatives named
Loading Google fonts directly from Google's CDN
From 1 comment
I'm curious. If visitors visit a site using a font served by Google fonts and visit another using the same font, will it use the cache from the browser? because if yes, then i…
hubot on HN
Hand-made OpenSans.css inlining script
From 1 comment
I got tired of using font CDNs, didn't like extra round trips for the woff files, and I also really liked open-sans, so I made an OpenSans.css which inlines all the OpenSans…
steakejjs on HN