From: Behnam (behnam.rassi@gmail.com)
Date: Sat May 30 2009 - 08:05:18 CDT
On 29-May-09, at 8:25 AM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
> -On [20090528 08:22], Sergey Malkin (sergeym@windows.microsoft.com)
> wrote:
>> Bandwidth and download time is not a problem specific to fonts and
>> I always
>> thought browser cache is exactly intended to solve it.
>
> I very much doubt font foundries and their licenses will look
> kindly upon
> that. (If you assume the typical on-disk browser cache where you
> can copy
> anything from your cache and reuse it.)
Understood. Although I haven't seen positive reaction about the
efficiency of browser cache in this regard. This might be because it
wasn't used widely enough to evaluate this efficiency. Nonetheless,
it would be useful if the page stop loading the font if it is
detected installed in user's computer. It only make sense.
Behnam
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