Resources aren’t requested by CSS, but by the DOM

This is a good tweet from Harry:

Simple yet significant thing all developers should keep in mind: CSS resources (fonts, background images) are not requested by your CSS, but by the DOM node that needs them [Note: slight oversimplification, but

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