New versions of browsers have come out that extend the
Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to control access
to fonts as well as to JavaScript files. This
means that on all my sites—personal and professional—that use webfonts, they
have reverted to using default fonts, with ugly results.
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Including web fonts in web pages should be simple and fun but as previously noted there are various gotchas along the way. One of these is that web fonts are invisible until downloaded. There are ways around this that depend on where you get your fonts from. Read more
After reading the text version of a talk by Maciej Cegłowski titled The Web Obesity Epidemic I felt pretty smug because I thought I had redesigned my blog on reasonably minimal lines. Then I checked and was chagrined to discover a recent entry page was 1.01 MB compared with Maciej Cegłowski’s entire talk weighing in at slightly less than 1 MB. I decided to try to work out where I went wrong. Read more