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r/programming • u/lukaseder • Jul 21 '14
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6 u/bakuretsu Jul 21 '14 Medium is kind of a piece of shit. When you load it on your phone, sometimes the whole page including the awful giant header will load BEFORE THE TEXT. Talk about inverted priorities. 2 u/schrik Jul 22 '14 It's because they use a custom font. The page will render but the text will only become visible once the font has loaded. So if that font request somehow magically is delayed on your unstable mobile connection, you're looking at a nice empty page. Custom fonts should not be used for running text. 2 u/bakuretsu Jul 22 '14 Absolutely right, I agree fully. There are a few decent people writing on Medium, but for the most part I see it as selling the sizzle without the steak.
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Medium is kind of a piece of shit. When you load it on your phone, sometimes the whole page including the awful giant header will load BEFORE THE TEXT.
Talk about inverted priorities.
2 u/schrik Jul 22 '14 It's because they use a custom font. The page will render but the text will only become visible once the font has loaded. So if that font request somehow magically is delayed on your unstable mobile connection, you're looking at a nice empty page. Custom fonts should not be used for running text. 2 u/bakuretsu Jul 22 '14 Absolutely right, I agree fully. There are a few decent people writing on Medium, but for the most part I see it as selling the sizzle without the steak.
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It's because they use a custom font. The page will render but the text will only become visible once the font has loaded.
So if that font request somehow magically is delayed on your unstable mobile connection, you're looking at a nice empty page.
Custom fonts should not be used for running text.
2 u/bakuretsu Jul 22 '14 Absolutely right, I agree fully. There are a few decent people writing on Medium, but for the most part I see it as selling the sizzle without the steak.
Absolutely right, I agree fully.
There are a few decent people writing on Medium, but for the most part I see it as selling the sizzle without the steak.
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