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Elk Development => Bug Reports => Exterminated Bugs => Topic started by: scripple on February 22, 2014, 09:23:17 pm

Title: Missing Icons
Post by: scripple on February 22, 2014, 09:23:17 pm
I'm not sure if this is one you will care about, but I'll put it out there anyway.  For accessibility reasons I have firefox set to not allow pages to override my font selections.  This breaks a lot of the default theme as you're pulling a lot of the icons from the font you load and they're not available so I get a missing glyph sign where there should be an icon.  This becomes especially true when the reponsive theme drops into mobile / narrow column mode.
Title: Re: Missing Icons
Post by: Nao on February 23, 2014, 08:44:15 am
This is actually one of the well known drawbacks of using fonts for icons, along with browseer compatibility and extra bandwidth. Not that it helps, but a lot of websites are probably broken for you so it's not going to change your life. ;)
Title: Re: Missing Icons
Post by: scripple on February 23, 2014, 10:12:55 am
Yeah thus the reason I don't expect this one will get fixed of even regarded as a bug.  Still figure I'll let people know.
Title: Re: Missing Icons
Post by: emanuele on February 23, 2014, 11:39:48 am
mmm... That's not so nice...
It would be nice to have an image as fallback, but I don't know if it is possible... :-\
Title: Re: Missing Icons
Post by: TE on February 23, 2014, 12:11:25 pm
I dont think there's a proper workaround. If you disallow loading images you have the same issue with images..
Title: Re: Missing Icons
Post by: scripple on February 23, 2014, 12:32:33 pm
I suspect more people override font settings than disallow images.  But as Nao pointed out lots of sites are somewhat broken when you don't allow them to use their own fonts.   (Especially when you insist on larger font sizes.)
Title: Re: Missing Icons
Post by: Nao on February 23, 2014, 04:01:39 pm
And don't even get me started on users that disable js! ;)
Title: Re: Missing Icons
Post by: emanuele on February 23, 2014, 04:38:20 pm
/me whistles innocently
Title: Re: Missing Icons
Post by: scripple on February 23, 2014, 04:59:17 pm
Disable js you say?  Sounds vaguely familiar.  ;)
Title: Re: Missing Icons
Post by: emanuele on March 07, 2014, 01:13:13 pm
I think this is related to what @Antechinus was saying somewhere in the last days... can't find the topic again... lol
Title: Re: Missing Icons
Post by: Antechinus on March 07, 2014, 01:18:07 pm
What was I saying? :D
Title: Re: Missing Icons
Post by: emanuele on June 23, 2017, 05:52:10 pm
Well, I think with 1.1 we have dropped (or at least started to drop) using FA for icons in favour of SVG images, so this one could be considered somehow "fixes" (or in the process to be).