On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Bence Damokos bdamokos@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know about Safari, but Firefox 3.5 first renders the text and then downloads the fonts and rerenders, if I read this correctly:
Yes, that's what I understand as well. It was discussed on www-style just a little while ago:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009May/0036.html
Safari avoids Firefox's behavior to avoid re-rendering text, on the same principle as browsers these days don't start layout until they've got all CSS (to avoid FOUC). See also: