Re: SVG instead of PNG
Reply #3 –
Well I don't personally care about IE, apart from the fact that it infests my OS and I have to keep patching it, but some nutters apparently do care about it. If there's a plug-in for it, no worries.
Could do animations with css3. Would need a fix for IE9 and 8, but there's probably a nifty bit of js that would do it. Or, even just a transform on the width of a child element would do it (just considering options here).
Re: SVG instead of PNG
Reply #5 –
Fonts take too much space for only one obvious benefit (retina stuff), and they're super hard to redo. Even sprited images are a pita. Single images are the way to go if you ask me. Once they're properly handled of course. The SMF way was no good. I don't know what elk does so I can't say anything.
Re: SVG instead of PNG
Reply #6 –
Not going to flame since I have very little knowledge about the general things going "design-wise", but I feel that fonts are (technically) a cheat and easy way out for something else (and Nao's post partially confirms that).
I mean: fonts are not graphics. Fonts are a way to write*, not to make graphics. At least not in a "traditional" way and hence the "easy way out" part: fonts have been forced to do something they are not intended to just because it was the easiest way to make things look nice on some devices/browsers.
At least that's my hypothesis without knowing much else, there are plenty of tools for make graphic, there are plenty of solutions (png, svg) to make *good graphic, so there is no real technical reason to use fonts... At least I can't see any...
Re: SVG instead of PNG
Reply #7 –
Yes the original reason was for ie7 and ie8 (iirc) to properly support svg images.
Re: SVG instead of PNG
Reply #10 –
Thanks for the links, interesting reading. I've personally not done much with fonts, but IchBin did point me at font awesome and its pretty interesting what you can do.
Not sure I'm on board with all your reasons (ram, bandwidth, cache) everything has its tradeoffs and to often these measurements are of dubious quality or benefit to the end user. I think its enough that its new and therefor fun to explore and play with, it provides a new look and a way to do things. Although not font icons per say, we do use several glyphs where appropriate, and adding those via css beats adding in all the img tags. Actually I think it would be fun to do a theme using the fonts.
Re: SVG instead of PNG
Reply #11 –
I'm happy as long as someone is willing to research and take a good hard look at it before making a decision.
BTW, aren't glyphs and font icons in essence the EXACT same thing? One is just native and one is not.