initiatorType does not have a font value

[wbamberg]

"font" is not listed as a value for initiatorType (https://w3c.github.io/resource-timing/#dom-performanceresourcetiming-initiatortype) and in practice, a font loaded using @font-face gets a type of "css" (which we would expect, since it uses url() to load it.

Try https://mdn.github.io/learning-area/css/styling-text/web-fonts/web-font-finished.html with this code:

const observer = new PerformanceObserver((list) => {
  list.getEntries().forEach((entry) => {
    console.log(`${entry.initiatorType} : ${entry.name}`);
  });
});

observer.observe({ type: "resource", buffered: true });

=>

link : https://mdn.github.io/learning-area/css/styling-text/web-fonts/web-font-finished.css
css : https://mdn.github.io/learning-area/css/styling-text/web-fonts/fonts/zantroke-webfont.woff2
css : https://mdn.github.io/learning-area/css/styling-text/web-fonts/fonts/cicle_fina-webfont.woff2
other : https://mdn.github.io/favicon.ico

Also corrected the entry in the parent interface, initiatorType is not the type of resource.

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Preview URLs

• /en-US/docs/Web/API/PerformanceResourceTiming/initiatorType
• /en-US/docs/Web/API/PerformanceResourceTiming

[Elchi3]

fwiw, I asked in the spec repo about a correct list of initiator types: w3c/resource-timing#364

[wbamberg]

fwiw, I asked in the spec repo about a correct list of initiator types: w3c/resource-timing#364

Oh, sorry, I wasn't sure if it were better to just ask or file a PR. Then idk 🤷 .

[Elchi3]

There was an answer in the spec issue and it seems like font exists but is for HTML <font face=""> loading.

[wbamberg]

I can't find much documentation of <font face...> but it doesn't appear that it will load a remote font: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/font#attr-face . Even if it does, it seems like this PR is right to remove the existing description of "font", and it's very arguable in any case whether there's any value in documenting usages with <font>.

[Elchi3]

Fair enough. Let's remove this, the current text is clearly wrong as well.