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However, maybe it is just me, but I find this writing style irritating. I find it a little bit creepy when a product starts adressing me from a first person view.
I'm not much into frontend development, but AFAIU Font Awesome is a bunch of assets packed as a font [0]. Why is this is a good idea? Is it faster, smaller, more convenient, something else? 0: http://stackoverflow.com/a/15503304
Really nice idea! There are often situations where a tool like this can come in handy. However, maybe it is just me, but I find this writing style irritating. I find it a little bit creepy when a product starts adressing me from a first person view.
'Why' was the first thing I was thinking but apparently offensive!
I'm not much into frontend development, but AFAIU Font Awesome is a bunch of assets packed as a font [0]. Why is this is a good idea? Is it faster, smaller, more convenient, something else? 0: http://stackoverflow.com/a/15503304
A lot of font-icons allow you to set the the icon using class names. So rather than linking to a specific image file or using some obscure ascii code like in the stackoverflow example you linked to, I can just add a class name like 'icon-user' and the user icon will show up. It's definitely easier in some situations. Font icons are scalable too, which makes it really easy to change the icon size on the fly. Since I d…
I'm not much into frontend development, but AFAIU Font Awesome is a bunch of assets packed as a font [0]. Why is this is a good idea? Is it faster, smaller, more convenient, something else? 0: http://stackoverflow.com/a/15503304
A lot of font-icons allow you to set the the icon using class names. So rather than linking to a specific image file or using some obscure ascii code like in the stackoverflow example you linked to, I can just add a class name like 'icon-user' and the user icon will show up. It's definitely easier in some situations. Font icons are scalable too, which makes it really easy to change the icon size on the fly. Since I d…
* You can change the color instantly (color)
* You can add a drop shadow easily as well (text-shadow)