@font-face is definitely a huge string to the CSS author's bow, in fact, it's like a freekin' flamin' arrow, but watch out, Safari isn't very nice to slow connections.

I've built a number of different mini-apps for Twitter, and run in to various API limitations that I've not been happy with (equally, Twitter did add the favourite count and fix the auth issue on favs). Twitter avatars is one of those annoyances. If you've built an app that caches a Twitter user's avatar, and [...]