That's a great point - I'll take a look to see how doable it is. On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 7:28 PM, L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 2015-11-04 19:16 -0800, Bobby Holley wrote: > > Right now, every wpt test includes a stylesheet with an @font-face rule > to > > make the 'ahem' font available to tests. Since font loading triggers a > > document-wide reflow, we end up with a non-deterministic network-driven > > reflow in each and every test, which makes it harder to test layout > > optimizations and increases the chances for intermittent bugs. > > > > In [1] I'm planning to add a debug flag to load web fonts synchronously, > > and set that flag in the wpt runner. Please let me know if anyone has any > > objections. > > The font shouldn't even load unless it's needed (i.e., there's text > that uses it). I *think* that's the way things work across > browsers, and allows inclusion of style sheets that provide a > "library" of @font-face rules that may or may not be used. That > would avoid the reflow except where Ahem is actually used, which > seems like the way things ought to work. > > -David > > -- > 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 > 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 > Before I built a wall I'd ask to know > What I was walling in or walling out, > And to whom I was like to give offense. > - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914) > _______________________________________________ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo
