On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:09:31 +1100 Stuart Prescott wrote: > I'd rather not see us loading images in instead of using scalable fonts; the > visual result will be much poorer (either fuzzy oversized raster image, not > scalable right sized raster image or memory hogging browser crashing svg).
Is SVG in a browser so troublesome as you seem to imply? > > Perhaps those who don't want to download this webfont could install the > fonts-octicons package instead? This has a number of disadvantages [1], but, above all, it does *not* seem to work! I've just tried forbidding @font-face again and installing package fonts-octicons: even after restarting Iceweasel, I still see the rectangles with the hexadecimals in them... [1] among which: it requires ensuring a special package is installed on all systems where I want to access the tracker.debian.org web interface; I am not especially happy about the OFL-v1.1 license (although OFL-licensed fonts may comply with the DFSG, as in this case); ... -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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