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What I see on that page: one hell of a lot of unicode placeholders and not much else. We don't all agree with a site's font choices. And at least img made an
by ris 13y ago
What I see on that page: one hell of a lot of unicode placeholders and not much else.
We don't all agree with a site's font choices.
And at least img made an attempt at semantic meaning and accessibility with alt= attributes. The failure modes for img are actually quite good. There's no such concern in the minds of those who gave birth to icon fonts.
- yackob03 13y agoLigature symbols actually addresses this. there just aren't enough of them for my needs. http://kudakurage.com/ligature_symbols/ http://kudakurage.com/ligature_symbols/
- ris 13y agoI must admit that's actually quite a cool solution. I'm still not totally convinced by font abuse though.
- fortawesome 13y agoThey also aren't supported very well by browsers. IE8, in particular.
- ds9 13y agoSame here( "a lot of unicode placeholders" ). Can anyone clarify what would make these visible with Firefox 24 on Windows? (Same result for me with Iceweasel, but it's a few versions behind) The site says JS is not required, and turning it on didn't help. FF 24 is just about the latest. What browser is this intended for?
- iSnow 13y agoConfigure your NoScript options and uncheck "Forbid @font-face" (under Embeddings) and you are done.