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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions layouts/about.hbs
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{{> footer }}
</body>
</html>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/prism-tomorrow.css" media="all">
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</div>
</div>
</footer>
<script type="text/javascript">
(function(d) {
try {
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.addEventListener('load', function() {
if(this.responseText) {
addStyle(this.responseText);
window.localStorage.fonts_css_cache = this.responseText;
}
});
xhr.open('get', '/static/fonts/webfont.css');
xhr.send();
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btw.: yes, we load the webfonts.css every time, and also update the cache every time. The user still gets a fast experience, the webfonts.css will be cached, but in case of new and different fonts, we still get an update.

} catch(e) {
var c = d.createElement('link'), sc = d.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];
c.href = '//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Source+Sans+Pro:300,300italic,400,400italic,600,600italic,700,700italic';
c.rel = 'stylesheet';
sc.parentNode.insertBefore(c,sc);
}
})(document);
</script>
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<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>{{#if title}}{{ title }} | {{/if}}{{ site.title }}</title>

<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="http://fonts.gstatic.com">
<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="http://www.google-analytics.com">
<link href='//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Source+Sans+Pro:300,300italic,400,400italic,600,600italic,700,700italic' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

<meta name="author" content="{{ site.author }}">
<meta name="robots" content="{{#if robots}}{{ robots }}{{else}}index, follow{{/if}}">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">

<script type="text/javascript">
var addStyle = (function(d) {
return function(style) {
if(!d.querySelector('#fontcache')) {
var c = d.createElement('style'), sc = d.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];
c.innerHTML = style;
c.id = 'fontcache';
sc.parentNode.insertBefore(c,sc);
}
}
})(document);
(function(d,w,s) {
if('querySelector' in d && 'localStorage' in w && s.getItem('fonts_css_cache') !== null) {
addStyle(s.fonts_css_cache);
}
})(document, window, window.localStorage);
</script>
<noscript>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Source+Sans+Pro:300,300italic,400,400italic,600,600italic,700,700italic">
</noscript>

{{!-- <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/static/apple-touch-icon.png"> --}}
{{!-- <link rel="icon" href="/static/apple-touch-icon.png"> --}}

<link rel="canonical" href="{{ canonical }}">
<link rel="alternate" href="/{{site.locale}}/blog.xml" title="Node.js Blog" type="application/rss+xml">
<link rel="alternate" href="/{{site.locale}}/tsc-minutes.xml" title="Node.js TSC meeting minutes" type="application/rss+xml">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/{{site.locale}}/styles.css" media="all">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/prism-tomorrow.css" media="all">
</head>
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