[css-fonts] Allow UA to not download font hints if it would have ignored them
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Description
@zachleat proposed a uses-hints media query in order to have different @font-face rules (URLs really) to fonts with and without hinting data - which can be up to 50% of the file size, but is ignored on most systems (iOS, Android, Chrome)
https://twitter.com/zachleat/status/1127548970128019456?s=19
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the issue text and the linked proposal about a uses-hints media query; no files or tests are named. Done means reaching a clear specification decision for how different @font-face URLs would serve fonts with and without hinting data.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- css
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100