https://davekz.com/google-web-fonts-with-fewer-requests/ The Trials and Tribulations of a Programming Ninja Thu, 31 Oct 2013 18:49:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://davekz.com/google-web-fonts-with-fewer-requests/#comment-481 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 18:49:32 +0000 http://www.david.kryzaniak.com/?p=147#comment-481 Yeah I don’t this isn’t a good idea Dave imho. I see why you’re doing it, but that Google url will serve up different css for different browsers, and will bring in different font files dependent on the browser, including .woff, .ttf, .eot and .svg. If you copy all the relevant css, you’re bringing in unnecessary font files which will be even slower since you’d need to bring in all the font files, defeating the performance purpose. There’s a reason Google’s doing it this way. I think the best way to speed this up would be to serve the files locally and do your own browser detection.

]]> https://davekz.com/google-web-fonts-with-fewer-requests/#comment-475 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 03:43:40 +0000 http://www.david.kryzaniak.com/?p=147#comment-475 If we open the same stylesheet link from Safari, you will get the trutype (.ttf) file link. Including that also is a good option. If we don’t have Safari installed, we could use the “User Agent Switcher” Firefox add-on to change the user agent to “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/534.54.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.4 Safari/534.54.16” and open the stylesheet to get the link to .ttf file.

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