I spoke with yaili about this and this was her response:
...maybe a nice to have as it will mean more people will access the correct font. On our sites I think we're using the Webfont Loader though, not the code that is shown on the bug.
http://code.google.com/apis/webfonts/docs/webfont_loader.html
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Daker, do you think this is something you could do and we will add it?
I spoke with yaili about this and this was her response:
...maybe a nice to have as it will mean more people will access the correct font. On our sites I think we're using the Webfont Loader though, not the code that is shown on the bug.
http:// code.google. com/apis/ webfonts/ docs/webfont_ loader. html
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Daker, do you think this is something you could do and we will add it?