GoogleAPI links for Google Fonts not accepted in Themes?

Ivor said

sevenspark said
Cool, so as long as we’re using a reasonable font stack that falls back to system fonts, we should be good? That seems reasonable

Yup

Some authors use hard coded links and the Admin Panel takes 6/7secs to load, which — as you may know — it’s unacceptable.

Ivor said
Guys please relax,

First of all we’re going to announce the changes soon but the Team is currently working as fast as they can to make this happen as soon as possible via a Notes post.

Okay so let’s clarify this a little bit:

You can use the Google Fonts Directory to load the fonts in your theme but if the links cannot be loaded for whatever reason it should fall back to another regular font. Themes should degrade gracefully when they’re offline.

@subwaydriver feel free to resubmit.

If the fonts cannot be loaded because the user’s offline, We could only provide a limited number of fonts available offline, imagine 600+ fonts…. it’s just not gonna happen…. BUT man why push for such a thing… HAVE ANYBODY EVER COMPLAINED?

Ivor said

sevenspark said
Cool, so as long as we’re using a reasonable font stack that falls back to system fonts, we should be good? That seems reasonable

Yup

Some authors use hard coded links and the Admin Panel takes 6/7secs to load, which — as you may know — it’s unacceptable.

Man, my latest code allows user to copy paste the font name and everything is automatically done, no pain, no stress. I would be very unhappy to get reject after so much hard work, really.

Ivor said
Guys please relax,

First of all we’re going to announce the changes soon but the Team is currently working as fast as they can to make this happen as soon as possible via a Notes post.

Okay so let’s clarify this a little bit:

You can use the Google Fonts Directory to load the fonts in your theme but if the links cannot be loaded for whatever reason it should fall back to another regular font. Themes should degrade gracefully when they’re offline.

@subwaydriver feel free to resubmit.

Hi Ivor,

thanks a lot for the feedback. We made this theme together with subwaydriver, and already resubmited the file without the google font We will make later an update than with the google fonts also included.

Anyway, we had fallback to system fonts also, so this is why we were even more surprised.

Thanks again,

tb

dnp_theme said
If the fonts cannot be loaded because the user’s offline, We could only provide a limited number of fonts available offline, imagine 600+ fonts…. it’s just not gonna happen…. BUT man why push for such a thing… HAVE ANYBODY EVER COMPLAINED?

I’m talking about system fonts: Arial, Helvetica, etc.

Thunderbuddies said
Hi Ivor,

thanks a lot for the feedback. We made this theme together with subwaydriver, and already resubmited the file without the google font We will make later an update than with the google fonts also included.

Anyway, we had fallback to system fonts also, so this is why we were even more surprised.

Thanks again,

tb

Yeah sorry for the confusion guys, feel free to update after we approve it.

Ivor said

dnp_theme said
If the fonts cannot be loaded because the user’s offline, We could only provide a limited number of fonts available offline, imagine 600+ fonts…. it’s just not gonna happen…. BUT man why push for such a thing… HAVE ANYBODY EVER COMPLAINED?

I’m talking about system fonts: Arial, Helvetica, etc.

Thanks

Why (and how) on earth a user will open a website if he is supposedly OFFLINE ? Can we call it a TF Paradox

And we as a developer will always ensure for graceful fallback in case of connection goes haywire in the middle of surfing or one testing it on XAMPP or the likes.

I’m still awaiting an official reply as this came as a setback to me as well who is in the middle of a theme development.

aamit_wraj said
Why (and how) on earth a user will open a website if he is supposedly OFFLINE ? Can we call it a TF Paradox

^ Google going offline? Well, that can happen very rarely.
Also, if that’s the reason, what about all the calls on hundreds themes to jquery scripts on http://ajax.googleapis.com ?