Bug#815110: tracker.debian.org: please use plain images (rather than web fonts) as icons

2016-02-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 7:33 AM, Francesco Poli wrote: > However, having to also add this configuration file to each browser to > be used to access the tracker.debian.org web interface is a further > disadvantage of this strategy... It is also slower than embedding the SVG in the HTML like GitHub

Bug#815110: tracker.debian.org: please use plain images (rather than web fonts) as icons

2016-02-25 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 14:45:57 +0100 Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Francesco Poli , 2016-02-20, 11:28: > >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... > > Add this to y

Bug#815110: tracker.debian.org: please use plain images (rather than web fonts) as icons

2016-02-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Francesco Poli , 2016-02-20, 11:28: 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... Add this to your userContent.css: @font-face { font-family: 'octicons'; src:

Re: Bug#815110: tracker.debian.org: please use plain images (rather than web fonts) as icons

2016-02-23 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 09:16:21AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:33:46AM -0200, Antonio Terceiro a écrit : > > > > Also, using an icons font means a single HTTP request to download all > > icons at once, what greatly reduces the latency on loading pages. > > Hi Antonio

Bug#815110: tracker.debian.org: please use plain images (rather than web fonts) as icons

2016-02-22 Thread Tiago Ilieve
Hi, Worth mentioning that GitHub itself has stopped using icon fonts, delivering Octicons with SVG[1]. They even figured that using SVG is actually (a little bit) faster than the previous approach. Regards, Tiago. [1]: https://github.com/blog/2112-delivering-octicons-with-svg -- Tiago "Myhro"

Bug#815110: tracker.debian.org: please use plain images (rather than web fonts) as icons

2016-02-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:33:46AM -0200, Antonio Terceiro a écrit : > > Also, using an icons font means a single HTTP request to download all > icons at once, what greatly reduces the latency on loading pages. Hi Antonio, isn't the browser's cache solving very efficiently this problem after the

Bug#815110: tracker.debian.org: please use plain images (rather than web fonts) as icons

2016-02-20 Thread Francesco Poli
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

Re: Bug#815110: tracker.debian.org: please use plain images (rather than web fonts) as icons

2016-02-19 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:09:31AM +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)

Bug#815110: tracker.debian.org: please use plain images (rather than web fonts) as icons

2016-02-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 6:43 AM, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote: > As discussed in bug #753800 [1], I would love seeing the tracker > web interface modified so that it uses plain images (rather than > @font-face web fonts) in order to display icons. Likewise. > If you need some DFSG-free icon

Bug#815110: tracker.debian.org: please use plain images (rather than web fonts) as icons

2016-02-18 Thread Stuart Prescott
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). Perhaps those who don't want to download this webfont could install

Bug#815110: tracker.debian.org: please use plain images (rather than web fonts) as icons

2016-02-18 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: tracker.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hello! As discussed in bug #753800 [1], I would love seeing the tracker web interface modified so that it uses plain images (rather than @font-face web fonts) in order to display icons. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/753800#34 and following messages