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They're using a webfont with a ligature for !=.

by kec 4y ago

bxparks 4y ago
Sheeet, I didn't even know that was possible. Why would they use that font for displaying C code? I looked at that ≠ and spent a few minutes trying to figure out what language it was. Maybe I should uncheck the "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above" option in Firefox, though it woulld probably break other websites.
- Arnavion 4y ago
  >Why would they use that font for displaying C code? Using ligature fonts for programming became popular a few years ago. As in some people even use them in their editors.
  - bspammer 4y ago
    Which is totally fine on their own machine, but using a webfont to force ligatures on anyone viewing their website is just confusing as a reader.
    - Arnavion 4y ago
      No, I get it. I don't use them either because I find them confusing. I'm just telling you you missed out on what was a quite popular trend from a few years ago.
  - remram 4y ago
    Lately my Firefox has been showing a ligature for "fi" in monospace code blocks, showing those two characters in the width of a single character. On every website with code blocks. It is mildly infuriating and I don't understand it.
    - Arnavion 4y ago
      Right-click the ligature text -> Inpsect. In the Inspector, on the right there is a tab called "Fonts" (to the right of "Rules", "Layout", etc). That will show you what font(s) Firefox used to render all the text in the selected element.
      - remram 4y ago
        I used Stylus to force ligatures off at some point, it mostly worked but caused some other issues.
- chrisshroba 4y ago
  FYI Fira Code is one example of a very popular programming font that supports ligatures (67k stars on GitHub) [1]. But totally get the frustration of seeing ligatures on the web and not understanding what was going on! [1] https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
- kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
  > though it woulld probably break other websites. It only breaks sites that are too poorly developed to respect the foundational principles of the web.
  - bxparks 4y ago
    It breaks Google Calendar badly, almost unusable due to missing icons and spacing problems.
hcm 4y ago
(Author here) I don't see that in Chrome so had no idea that was happening – thanks for pointing it out! I'm not a fan of coding ligatures so I just pushed a change to turn it off.

They're using a webfont with a ligature for !=.

by kec 4y ago

They're using a webfont with a ligature for !=.

Sheeet, I didn't even know that was possible. Why would they use that font for displaying C code? I looked at that ≠ and spent a few minutes trying to figure out what language it was. Maybe I should uncheck the "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above" option in Firefox, though it woulld probably break other websites.

Arnavion 4y ago
>Why would they use that font for displaying C code? Using ligature fonts for programming became popular a few years ago. As in some people even use them in their editors.
- bspammer 4y ago
  Which is totally fine on their own machine, but using a webfont to force ligatures on anyone viewing their website is just confusing as a reader.
  - Arnavion 4y ago
    No, I get it. I don't use them either because I find them confusing. I'm just telling you you missed out on what was a quite popular trend from a few years ago.
- remram 4y ago
  Lately my Firefox has been showing a ligature for "fi" in monospace code blocks, showing those two characters in the width of a single character. On every website with code blocks. It is mildly infuriating and I don't understand it.
  - Arnavion 4y ago
    Right-click the ligature text -> Inpsect. In the Inspector, on the right there is a tab called "Fonts" (to the right of "Rules", "Layout", etc). That will show you what font(s) Firefox used to render all the text in the selected element.
    - remram 4y ago
      I used Stylus to force ligatures off at some point, it mostly worked but caused some other issues.
chrisshroba 4y ago
FYI Fira Code is one example of a very popular programming font that supports ligatures (67k stars on GitHub) [1]. But totally get the frustration of seeing ligatures on the web and not understanding what was going on! [1] https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
> though it woulld probably break other websites. It only breaks sites that are too poorly developed to respect the foundational principles of the web.
- bxparks 4y ago
  It breaks Google Calendar badly, almost unusable due to missing icons and spacing problems.

hcm 4y ago

(Author here) I don't see that in Chrome so had no idea that was happening – thanks for pointing it out! I'm not a fan of coding ligatures so I just pushed a change to turn it off.