On 1/24/17, 3:42 AM, "carlos.rov...@gmail.com on behalf of Carlos Rovira" <carlos.rov...@gmail.com on behalf of carlosrov...@apache.org> wrote:
>Hi Alex, > >2017-01-23 23:42 GMT+01:00 Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com>: > >> >> Not sure what you mean by "external". How big would would our examples >>be >> if they had to bring down a font? Also, we don't have a SWF equivalent >> for embedding in Falcon without going through a bunch of steps that >> involve the old Flex SDK and some Adobe jars. >> > >I mean the look and feels that are working out there and references (like >MDL) are pulling CSS and Fonts from >CDNs. Is what we do with css and fonts in MDL. So I think we should >encourage to do the same since is what docs from this kind of frameworks >encourage to do as well. > >The main problem here, FWIK, is with flash and the ability to use the same >resources (embedded or not) > >But my opinion is that we should look how to solve the flash side instead >of avoid the most usual way of proceed Are you saying that most sites now pull down a font? Are the common fonts so ugly that we can't use them and provide our users with a smaller bandwidth requirement? FlexJS has a way of supporting @fontface now, but I would prefer that our default look doesn't require a font download, even from a CDN. Or maybe we have one theme that uses Arial/Verdana or something common. My 2 cents, -Alex
