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 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.
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Antonio Terceiro
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