the font thing - http://paulirish.com/2009/fighting-the-font-face-fout/ is a goo...

underwater · on March 21, 2011

The font resource is obviously taking a while to load.

I opened the page in Chrome and page with just the fixed width fonts until the font finally loaded 30 seconds later. I was wondering if it was some kind meta-joke about blank pages. All I saw was the text "about:blank" placed randomly around the page.

I would have much preferred Firefox's behaviour.

busted · on March 22, 2011

Me too, it was seriously weird. I scrolled around the page for quite a while trying to figure out the joke before the text finally appeared.

cpeterso · on March 22, 2011

> some kind meta-joke about blank pages.

  <html>
  <head><title>about:blank</title></head>
  <body>This page is intentionally left blank.</body>
  </html>

:)

drivebyacct2 · on March 22, 2011

It really did take quite a while. I selected the text and pasted it into TextEdit to start reading it.

pavel_lishin · on March 21, 2011

The problem was that it changed a little at a time. First, the about:blank instances. Then, the headline. Then, random sections of the paragraph.

It didn't kill my family or send me into a migraine hell or anything, it was just distracting - I'm trying to read here. (I wonder how well it would work on a very slow connection.)