Fixing the 'Blank Text' Problem

1 · Ilya Grigorik · April 10, 2015, 7 a.m.
In cases where textual content is loaded before downloadable fonts are available, user agents may render text as it would be rendered if downloadable font resources are not available or they may render text transparently with fallback fonts to avoid a flash of text using a fallback font - Font loading guidelines. The ambiguity and lack of developer override in above spec language is a big gap and a performance problem. First, the ambiguity leaves us with inconsistent behavior across different br...