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I still believe using fonts to show icons is a hack. When we have better support for SVG files in browsers I believe that will be the most popular way of displa

I still believe using fonts to show icons is a hack. When we have better support for SVG files in browsers I believe that will be the most popular way of displaying icons. Simply because icon fonts are harder to user and edit. With SVG files the icons are delivered in XML format that can easily be manipulated by eg. JS. The downside is of course the many server requests it will require - one per icon.

robin_reala 14y ago
Not if you use fragment URLs: a single SVG with all your icons then reference icons.svg#telephone_icon or whatever. More info at http://www.broken-links.com/2012/08/14/better-svg-sprites-with-fragment-identifiers/ http://www.broken-links.com/2012/08/14/better-svg-sprites-wi...
- ygra 14y ago
  While the demo there works for me in IE (9 and 10) and FF it fails in Chrome. That's probably reason enough that you cannot really use it.
- cbr 14y ago
  This is Firefox and IE10 only so far: http://caniuse.com/#feat=svg-fragment http://caniuse.com/#feat=svg-fragment
nachteilig 14y ago
What's your toolchain for creating svgs? Seems like every time I look at doing this I still have to download some weird third party shareware to convert my photoshop stuff to SVG.
- sopooneo 14y ago
  You can save as SVG from Adobe Illustrator.
- shawnphoffman 14y ago
  You could also use InkScape if you want a free alternative to Illustrator. To me, using photoshop to design svgs is only going to cause you headaches.