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The point is that it will never happen that all codepoints are available everywhere (every font, evers OS, every device), and i certainly don't want a gazillion

by buster 12y ago

The point is that it will never happen that all codepoints are available everywhere (every font, evers OS, every device), and i certainly don't want a gazillion of pictures loaded on my smartphones little memory, just because some people think it necessary to have a symbol for poop in fonts which is never used anyway. I even consider it a total waste in my laptops 16GB of memory, to be honest. It's not a waste when it serves the real purpose of a language. A chinese word for poop? Sure. A picture of actual poop? No. And where does it stop? Can i have some dog poop and cat poop codepoints please? I'm sure elephant poop looks very different to cat poop, i want a code point for that too. I say it again: If you want pictures and cliparts, use .png. If you want to write actual text, use fonts. It's as simple as that.

scrollaway 12y ago
If you think using pngs instead of fonts is going to save your oh-so-precious mobile device's memory, you got another thing coming.
- buster 12y ago
  Which only shows that you know nothing. A unicode font can come in at about 20MB, but let's add more tiny pictures and make it 100MB, so that i can see the snowman on your webpage (which would be probably 2-5 kB as png). Why should my browser load thousands of pictures that are never used?! Yes, it's ridiculous.
  - scrollaway 12y ago
    > A unicode font can come in at about 20MB, but let's add more tiny pictures and make it 100MB You're pulling numbers out of your ass. You also clearly don't know how font fallbacks work, despite having been told how they work in this very thread. Several times.
    - buster 12y ago
      No, Arial Unicode MS: 22,1 MB. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_font https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_font And you clearly don't understand that a) this thread contains unicode that my browser still doesn't show, despite your magic fallback and b) the fonts stil contain garbage that has nothing to do with fonts.

by buster 12y ago

scrollaway 12y ago

If you think using pngs instead of fonts is going to save your oh-so-precious mobile device's memory, you got another thing coming.

buster 12y ago
Which only shows that you know nothing. A unicode font can come in at about 20MB, but let's add more tiny pictures and make it 100MB, so that i can see the snowman on your webpage (which would be probably 2-5 kB as png). Why should my browser load thousands of pictures that are never used?! Yes, it's ridiculous.
- scrollaway 12y ago
  > A unicode font can come in at about 20MB, but let's add more tiny pictures and make it 100MB You're pulling numbers out of your ass. You also clearly don't know how font fallbacks work, despite having been told how they work in this very thread. Several times.
  - buster 12y ago
    No, Arial Unicode MS: 22,1 MB. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_font https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_font And you clearly don't understand that a) this thread contains unicode that my browser still doesn't show, despite your magic fallback and b) the fonts stil contain garbage that has nothing to do with fonts.