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Better @font-face with Font Load Events—SmashingConf Whistler

February 27, 2015 Watch in 48 minutes 🇨🇦 Canada
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Of all the talks I’ve given thus far in my career, I think this one is the one I’m most proud of. The conference was fun: the attendees were lively and attentive, the location was beautiful (after it quit raining), and Vitaly sprinkled a bunch of easter eggs into the conference which always adds a little something extra. A huge thank you to Tim Kadlec for inviting me to speak.

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SmashingConf Whistler — Zach Leatherman on Better @font-face with Font Load Events from Smashing Magazine on Vimeo.

Skip to 3:43 to see me attempt to trick a crowd of 300 people into doing the flashback arm waving sequence from Wayne’s World, something I decided would be okay to try after seeing the responses to this tweet.

Slides on Speaker Deck (203 slides)

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Zach Leatherman IndieWeb Avatar for https://zachleat.com/is a builder for the web at IndieWeb Avatar for https://cloudcannon.com/CloudCannon. He is the creator and maintainer of IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.devEleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator. At one point he became entirely too fixated on web fonts. He has given 79 talks in nine different countries at events like Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, Jamstack Conf, CSSConf, and The White House. Formerly part of Netlify, Filament Group, NEJS CONF, and NebraskaJS. Learn more about Zach »

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