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I guess I'm used to nearly a megabyte of javascript coming over the network, but... Four embedded fonts? Just to get the character ⓘ and a checkmark, both of
by stonogo 9y ago
I guess I'm used to nearly a megabyte of javascript coming over the network, but...
Four embedded fonts? Just to get the character ⓘ and a checkmark, both of which are just regular unicode characters that these font files mis-encode?
Does anyone even look at anything any more?
- flixic 9y agoIt's probably some extension, because my 0-extension Chrome loads just two images, one CSS, one JS: https://i.imgur.com/kyhBCF9.png https://i.imgur.com/kyhBCF9.png
- kroltan 9y agoAre you sure? There's a lot of stuff going on here, and I'm on Firefox. No adblocker or any addons that meddle with page requests or content. https://i.imgur.com/e141uBx.png https://i.imgur.com/e141uBx.png
- milankragujevic 9y agoYou're looking at the real HN, not at the Status Page HN..
- tejtm 9y agoahh... so thats what all those those empty square boxes are they don't fail very gracefully
- corben 9y agoMost of the fonts loaded are variations of Open Sans, which are used throughout the pages. We'll look into improving the degradation when the icon font loads; it's just the Octicon font set. Thanks for pointing this out.
- vim_wannabe 9y agoWhy not use whatever font hn uses? hehe
- sp332 9y agoInstead of using Octicon, you could use the Unicode characters for circle-i U+24D8, checkmark U+2713, and calendar U+1F4C5.
- rodrigocoelho 9y agoYou can subset the font with Fontello. http://fontello.com http://fontello.com
- TekMol 9y agoIn FireFox you can set gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled to false in about:config and have a much faster web experience. It's especially super useful on mobile.
- OJFord 9y agoThat renders this site more broken though, since there's just brown squares all over the page instead of characters from whatever font. I suppose due to no fallback?