Why don't websites immediately display their text these days?

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Track title: Hypnotic Puzzle2

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Chapters
00:00 Question
01:10 Accepted answer (Score 481)
07:17 Answer 2 (Score 118)
07:57 Answer 3 (Score 19)
10:34 Answer 4 (Score 14)
11:03 Thank you

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/547743/w...

Accepted answer links:
[WOFF]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Open_Fo...
[Google Web fonts]: http://www.google.com/webfonts
[Dagens Nyheter]: http://www.dn.se/
[web designer Paul Irish's post on FOUT in connection with web fonts]: http://paulirish.com/2009/fighting-the-f.../
http://bugzil.la/499292
[an embedding bit]: https://gist.github.com/576335
[set thing]: http://readableweb.com/testing-shows-ie9.../
[a patch waiting to land]: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?i
[a bug registered for this too]: http://crbug.com/235303
[webfontloader]: https://github.com/typekit/webfontloader

Answer 2 links:
[a web font]: http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/...
[it was decided by them]: http://paulirish.com/2009/fighting-the-f.../
[Google's WebFont Loader]: https://developers.google.com/webfonts/d...

Answer 3 links:
[AJAX]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28pro...
[WOFF]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Open_Fo...
[portableapps.com]: http://portableapps.com
[WOFF]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Open_Fo...
[AJAX]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28pro...
[Firebug]: http://getfirebug.com/
[Chrome Developer Tools]: https://developers.google.com/chrome-dev.../
[Internet Explorer 8]: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/...

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#performance #browser #display #webkit

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