Just a heads-up, I have started working on a FontAwesome library for FlexJS. Some basic code is here, in case someone wants to take a peek: https://github.com/apache/flex-asjs/tree/feature/fontawesome
I needed font awesome icons for the Flex Team Page app I have been building using FlexJS and MDL. I thought it would be a good addition. Thanks, Om On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > On 8/25/16, 11:56 PM, "OK" <p...@olafkrueger.net> wrote: > > >Got it, thanks for explanation Alex! > > > >But one question is left: > >What is the difference between just loading a font and embedding a font? > >I thought "embedded" means that the font is delivered with our Flex > >application so that it don't rely to > >the client machine [1]. > >But if we able to just load the font and use it with FlexJS for me it > >seems > >that's pretty ok. > >So what would "embedding" mean in this context and what advantages would > >font "embedding" have? > > True embedding means that the font data is encoded into the SWF or HTML/JS > file and not a separate request to the server. > Loading means a separate request for the server. It turns out that in our > current loading of a font SWF the font is embedded into the separate font > SWF. > > HTH, > -Alex > >
