On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Bence Damokos <bdamo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know about Safari, but Firefox 3.5 first renders the text and then
> downloads the fonts and rerenders, if I read this correctly:

Yes, that's what I understand as well.  It was discussed on www-style
just a little while ago:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009May/0036.html

Safari avoids Firefox's behavior to avoid re-rendering text, on the
same principle as browsers these days don't start layout until they've
got all CSS (to avoid FOUC).  See also:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25207

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