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The text is hidden on purpose by the frontend programmer because he wants to avoid a phenomenon called "Flash Of Unstyled Text"(FOUT) that happens with embedded fonts (@font-face). For more info: http://paulirish.com/2009/fighting-the-font-face-fout/

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That is incorrect. As the article you link to states:

> Webkit takes a very different approach, and very intentionally. They believe it's better to keep the text invisible until the font is ready. This way, there is no moment where the text flashes into its newly upgraded self.

Google Chrome, the subject of the original linked post, is built in WebKit and thus inherits this behavior.

> That is incorrect.

It looks correct to me, you're both saying the same thing. It's not the site's frontend developer, it's the browser's, but it's for the same reason.

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