Re: Web Browsing Woes

2012-05-05 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> OpenType fonts are not really useful on the Mac, because the specific > OpenType features work only in Windows; Mac uses AAT, a different font > technology, at least up to Snow Leopard AAIK. That may be the reason > why Safari doesn't have those fonts installed. > > In short: see what happens in

Re: Web Browsing Woes

2012-05-05 Thread Geke
I didn't know about this downloading, but yes, OpenType fonts are large, so that could be what's going on. Please send us (or me) some of the links, so I can see if they are slow here too, and what kind of fonts they use: website-specific ones, or more standard ones. Then again, there are many dif

Re: Web Browsing Woes

2012-05-05 Thread peter
> > You might try a newer browser, like ten4fox, or Opera. > It could be an issue with the encoding they are using on the font (that's the base64), or a compatibility issue with the CSS font tag. (i don't know when they implemented full support for that) In any case, check the same page in diff

Re: Web Browsing Woes

2012-05-04 Thread Dan
At 4:15 PM -0700 5/4/2012, skyking...@verizon.net wrote: [1.25 GHz PowerMac G4, 1.5GB, OS X 10.4.11, Safari 4.1.3] Lately I have noticed that many web sites which I formerly accessed with no problem now take forever to load if they load at all. The only commonality seems to be the use of Open

Web Browsing Woes

2012-05-04 Thread skyking...@verizon.net
Lately I have noticed that many web sites which I formerly accessed with no problem now take forever to load if they load at all. The only commonality seems to be the use of Open Type fonts in these web pages; the Activity command reports the download of many items of the form "data:font/openty