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As a NoScript user, I rarely see web fonts and I prefer it this way. The text shows up instantaneously and the font will look great and be perfectly readable.
by ahoge 11y ago
As a NoScript user, I rarely see web fonts and I prefer it this way. The text shows up instantaneously and the font will look great and be perfectly readable.
Most web fonts don't look that nice on Windows. Windows heavily relies on hinting and doing this properly is a lot of hard mind-numbing work.
Most web fonts also aren't that readable. Sure, your wide/thin/square font looks very modern and stuff, but it's not as readable as a Verdana or Arial. When I visit your site, I'm there for the text, not the font.
- PhantomGremlin 11y agoI'm there for the text, not the font Me too. In Firefox on OS X, I simply set Lucida Grande as my default font, and I uncheck the box that allows pages to choose their own fonts. I don't think I'm missing much.
- mrec 11y agoI did the same in FF/Win - web fonts were a huge step back in my opinion - but immediately discovered a bunch of sites (including GitHub) abusing web fonts for button images, which made them pretty much unusable. Have you found a selective workaround for this?
- coffeedrinker 11y agoI use Chrome and a plugin called Font Changer that lets one override fonts on pages. I don't need to have it turned on for all sites but it can be done. Mostly I just have everything set to Arial (I don't like reading any serif fonts on screen). Perhaps there is a plugin for Firefox that does a similar thing.
- dredmorbius 11y agoWith uMatrix you can selectively enable various features for sites. I tend to start with minimal sets and re-enable to the point I've achieved sufficient functionality for my needs.
- RexRollman 11y agoI know you are specifically talking about web fonts but let's face it: a lot of the modern web sucks ass. I don't want my browser downloading custom fonts, autoplay videos, animated GIFs, or CSS elements that move around on their own (or refuse to move when I scroll). I am also not interested having my browser download javascript or tracking cookies from dozens of third party domains when I visit a site.
- gopowerranger 11y agoYour complaint is about design and how the site serves the page, not web fonts. Knowledgeable developers know how to deliver web fonts quickly and web fonts that looks good on your system. Unless you're paying by the byte, what gets downloaded shouldn't concern you from a well-developed site that doesn't hang on your phone. Unfortunately, in this copy/paste era, too many sites shoot themselves in the foot.
- arbitrage 11y agoYou, or anyone, don't get to tell people what concerns them. If they care about it, it's a concern. The cause of the concern should then be addressed, not the person having the concern.
- gopowerranger 11y agoPeople are "concerned" about a lot of crazy things that shouldn't bother them.
- narrowrail 11y agoThis is good to have someone that defends these modern practices. My problem concerns NPR (i.e. npr.org) and their direction for the use of Drupal with a specific config for the sites for their local affiliates that often requires Google js for the site to function properly. Practically speaking, this will not impact most visitors, but most of these people are being pigeonholed without knowing it for advertising purposes. I have a big problem with this. It is now affecting non-technical people b/c of the use of (ad)blockers on iOS.
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- snsr 11y agoWeb fonts done properly don't require JavaScript. You are correct about Windows having objectively terrible font rendering though, and not just in web browsers.
- ahoge 11y ago> Web fonts done properly don't require JavaScript. NoScript blocks fonts, video, audio, and JavaScript.