[Mediawiki-i18n] [Wikitech-l] Report on WebFonts deployment

[Nasir Khan]

Hi ,

The WebFonts is a great initiative for the indic wikipedia readers. I have
tested this extension for the Bengali wikipedia. I have checked form some
of the browsers (Firefox 7 & 8 from windows 7 and XP, Chrome 15.0 -windows
7 and XP, Firefox 7 form Uubntu 11.10) in different machines and in every
case i had to face the same problem, that the page loads twice and takes an
extra time for each of the pages.

At the very first time the page loads with the system default font and then
the whole page became empty and after that the browser shows the content
with the selected web font.

and the WebFonts did not work with the Android (2.3.6) default browser and
in the Opera Mobile browser for android.

thanks
Nasir Khan Saikat
Wikimedia Bangladesh

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 03:38, Platonides <platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 14/12/11 22:33, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote:
> > > Language support teams :-
> >
> > In order to force them, "if you don't test this it may break horribly
> > for you when deployed" seems way more convincing than "no new goodies
> > for you".
> >
>
> We tried telling people to test saying the same thing, may be should try
> telling them more often.
>
>
> > Development must continue even if ignored (do not confuse with negative
> > feedback), but blind coding without feedback is a dangerous zone.
> >
> +1
>
>
> > > PS: I understand the criticism might have come hard on the India list,
> > > but we(critics) are getting used to a pattern beyond Webfonts. We alert
> > > of something dangerous on the cards, People(mostly WMF) tend to ignore
> > > us, Then they "firefight" and then we criticize more post the entire
> > > thing, "you would have been better had you to listened us". This has
> > > happened 3rd time on row now, other 2 being Protest against Jimbo at
> > > WikiConference India &  IEP. I hope sooner, people take us seriously.
> >
> > It's not that Indian sites are treated worse, see the recent (similar)
> > issues in commons with EXIF.
> >
>
> Sorry I didn't quite get you, not sure if you got what i meant as well. I
> never said / meant / implied "Indian sites are treated worse", what I tried
> to convey was why the criticism on India list is high.
>
> --
> Regards
> Srikanth.L
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