On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:09:31AM +1100, Stuart Prescott wrote: > I'd rather not see us loading images in instead of using scalable fonts; the > visual result will be much poorer (either fuzzy oversized raster image, not > scalable right sized raster image or memory hogging browser crashing svg).
Also, using an icons font means a single HTTP request to download all icons at once, what greatly reduces the latency on loading pages. It's also possible to consosolidate images into a single image and then use parts of it as icons (CSS sprites), but that is a much more cumbersome process. > Perhaps those who don't want to download this webfont could install the > fonts-octicons package instead? > > Package: fonts-octicons > Source: octicons > Version: 3.5.0-1 > Installed-Size: 101 > Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force <pkg-fonts- > de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> > Architecture: all > Description-en: GitHub's icons font > GitHub's "octicons" font, you can use over 100 icons with this font. > . > See https://octicons.github.com/ for examples. > Description-md5: c8a9c221a01865bb56cb2e9d59ee6e7b > Multi-Arch: foreign > Homepage: https://octicons.github.com/ > Section: fonts > > (In iceweasel, you don't even need to reload the page for it to pick up the > new glyphs) This sesms like a good solution for those who won't allow web fonts to be loaded. -- Antonio Terceiro <terce...@debian.org>
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