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[corrected] font service blocking
You’ve probably been hearing about it, Apple’s new iOS9 can block font services like Google Fonts, Typekit, etc — among many other types of blocks. Considering how big the iPhone (and to a lesser degree, tablet) market is, it has equally big implications for your designs on mobile devices. It means using fallbacks is a necessity, not a choice. Kind of like when we had to design for IE6.
And a nice CodePen piece about setting fallbacks using font-face rather than font-family. Nathan calls it a “local sandwich”…
“It means you don’t have to set fallbacks everywhere, and more importantly: web font services can provide these fallbacks for you.”
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Re: [corrected] font service blocking
Destry wrote #294971:
No iOS9 doesn’t/can’t block font services, but content blockers eventually can do it (an optional install by third-party developers). Not all include that kind of blocking. One that does (er… did, that one is luckily already dead) unfortunately doesn’t include options to configuration it.
BTW 1 – Ghostery for desktop browsers blocks TypeKit by default. It is quite popular. Just saying.
BTW 2 – you should have a fall-back strategy for your web fonts anyway.
Last edited by phiw13 (2015-09-19 09:02:44)
Where is that emoji for a solar powered submarine when you need it ?
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Re: [corrected] font service blocking
Re-checking my sources, it looks like what they were talking about was Ghostery.
But you’re right, not nearly the big deal. No more so than any ad blocking tool.
I’m still using iPhone 4, which only goes up to iOS7. I probably won’t be buying another iPhone anyway.
phiw13 wrote #294978:
you should have a fall-back strategy for your web fonts anyway.
That was really the whole point. ;)
Last edited by Destry (2015-09-19 11:20:19)
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#4 2015-09-19 13:25:21
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Re: [corrected] font service blocking
phiw13 wrote #294978:
you should have a fall-back strategy for your web fonts anyway.
Or use @font-face kits & not rely on third parties.
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