[Laszlo-dev] High Performance Web Sites :: @font-face and performance

[P T Withington]

IE wins again...

> @font-face Performance Advice
> My first piece of advice is to avoid using @font-face unless it’s  
> critical to the page.
>
> The primary reason for this advice is that font files block  
> rendering of the entire page in IE until they’re done downloading.  
> Stylesheets also have this problem. But stylesheets provide styling  
> for all aspects of the entire page, whereas font files only add one  
> thing - a custom font.

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[High Performance Web Sites :: @font-face and performance](http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/10/13/font-face-and-performance/ 
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