title: Are @font-face embedded fonts always the last things to download?
body: <p>I'm using @font-face for the first time, and it seems like the font file is always the last resource to load on the page, no matter what.  I'm using a Font Squirrel-generated kit with the smiley syntax.  I've tried some of the techniques suggested <a href="http://paulirish.com/2009/fighting-the-font-face-fout/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>, among other places, to get the font to download earlier, including putting the font directly as data in the CSS and putting a styled element in the head section of the document.  None of these techniques are working; in Chrome, FF, and IE the font file is always downloaded very last.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any to affect the order in which the font loads?</p>
  
  <p>There is a related question <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1330825/preloading-font-face-fonts">here</a>, but it just links to the same Paul Irish post I mentioned.</p>