On 11/04/15 17:11, Go Linux wrote:
So I'm sure that I'm not the only one experiencing broken awesomefonts all over 
the web.  There may even be some font tweakers on this list.  Dunno.  Until the 
mozilla fixes their UI to accommodate these stupid icon fonts in conjunction 
with the font preference option, there is now a temporary fix - at least for 
Firefox.  All I'm doing is sharing it.  :)

golinux


I don't think there is something broken and need fixing on any web sites using the fonts from http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome. You can not say that they are not working because they are not using the fonts that you want to see. So by forcing the web sites to display the fonts that you want to see, you actually break them yourself. I am not surprised that the issues like the ones reported on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635823 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789788 have not been solved for more than 3 years, because that only affects a tiny fraction of the users that want to have the web sites being displayed with the fonts that they choose.

Even the visually impaired people do not have any issues with that kind of fonts. They mostly have issues seeing the size of the fonts and they way they are being displayed with certain colour schemes. Even there are plugins for that, but those kind of issues can easily be overcome without plugins.

There are indeed people who are experiencing the problems using fontawesome. But all of the problems that I know of, are on setup of the web server or web sites so they are not on the web browser side. I have been following discussions related to fontawesome as I want to use the theme on my own web site based on http://getskel.com/downloads/skel-baseline/ which is using it.

Cheers,

Anto

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