El 19/03/13 05:05, "Tim Chien" <[email protected]> escribió:
>Agree that icon font could be good approach. > >However, loading font in the system level risk of creating another >platform-specific Wingdings <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingdings> font. >If we are not planning to ship a font to the general web, I will strongly >against doing so. At least, platform font available to general web should >not contain PUA code points, but instead the Emoji code points, if >possible. > >We need to figure out how to share assets between apps without repackaging >it in every application.zip. It's harder to figure out but it's the right >approach. Oh yes. Totally agree. Furthermore, 3rd party app authors would also need to use them. > ><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingdings> > > >On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Kevin Grandon <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I'm currently working with UX on a prototype of utilizing an icon font. >> Using an icon font would have the following advantages: >> >> 1 - Better performance. I profiled and noticed that on average an icon >> font would save roughly 6 ms per icon replaced. >> 2 - Better scalability. As they are vectors, they could scale to any >> device size/dimension seamlessly. No need for @2x images. >> >> Implementation wise, it would look like this: >> >> 1 - A new font file is generated from SVGs, and packaged with the other >> MozTT fonts. >> 2 - The font would be loaded from the system level, and we would map >>icon >> CSS to the private use unicode range. >> 3 - There should be a transparent migration for apps, as we can simply >> update the building blocks. Or potentially we could force apps to >>include a >> new small CSS file. >> >> If this looks good, next steps would be to build out the prototype more >> and file bugs for components/apps which should take advantage of the >>icon >> font. I'd love to hear what you guys think of this approach. >> >> Thanks, >> Kevin Grandon >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-b2g mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g >> > > > >-- >Tim Guan-tin Chien, Senior Front-end Dev., Mozilla Corp. (Taiwan) >_______________________________________________ >dev-gaia mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-gaia > ________________________________ Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario. Puede consultar nuestra política de envío y recepción de correo electrónico en el enlace situado más abajo. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee. We only send and receive email on the basis of the terms set out at: http://www.tid.es/ES/PAGINAS/disclaimer.aspx _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
