Waiting for googleapis.com blocks loading the page

[sgon00]

In the beginning, I saw an issue titled "Browser gets no response....". I thought that was my issue. Then I followed that instruction and installed genghisapp-3.0.0.dev.gem.

Finally, I figured out what my real problem is. I am in China and google is blocked here. Failing to get http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Rokkitt:400,700|Source+Code+Pro blocks loading the page for more than 2 minutes.

I am not a ruby developer. Normally, failing to get some css resources will not block other page resources to be loaded. I don't know why genghisapp failed to load anything (just blank white page) and wait for this css resource more than 2 minutes. Thanks.

[bobthecow]

I'm sorry, that sounds like an awful user experience.

Browsers actually block until all external CSS files have loaded or timed out. In this case, it's not failing fast (like a 404 would) so it waits until the default browser timeout before failing. I'll look into what I can do about it.

[bobthecow]

In the interim, if you comment out that line from the base template, rebuild, and reinstall the dev gem, you should be able to load it without that huge delay.

[sgon00]

Got it, thanks a lot. :)