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Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

#81

Post by teuth » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 6:33 PM UTC

Really dislike the ng-click navigation for opening individual font pages. Those clickable elements should be anchors, to allow opening the pages in new tabs.

There doesn't seem to be any usability case for breaking a basic browsing convention here.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

#82

Post by xaduha » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 6:33 PM UTC

Can someone explain to me why Google Fonts doesn't provide proper cache headers, still?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29091014/how-do-i-levera...

Why disallow caching? Unless I'm misunderstanding something.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

#83

Post by whatsamattayou » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 6:34 PM UTC

dubcanada wrote: post #3

honkhonkpants wrote: post #2

Lazy loading while I scroll makes Chrome cry.

Would you much rather it load 500 different web fonts on page load and take 50 years to load?

When I go to a web page, yes, I expect the page to load completely and be done with it.

No scrolling needed. Show 1 page of content, and use AJAX to quickly load new page content.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

#84

Post by hanley » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 6:34 PM UTC

mrweasel wrote: post #71

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #43

"Your browser is not currently supported. Google Fonts works best on Chrome, Firefox, or Safari." Google still treating Edge users like trash, I see[0]. Microsoft Edge works fine for the vast majority of websites, and a block like this telling you to get a different browser is incredibly painful. If you tell me I need a different browser, I'm going to find a different company or website to do business with. [0]Gmail…

More and more sites are only tested in Chrome. It's not just Edge that no one cares about, Firefox is becoming a second class browser as well. Often it's pretty obvious that the authors didn't even try Firefox, because the JavaScript isn't even loading properly.

I regularly have to email SaaS companies and tell them the service I just signed up doesn't work correctly in Firefox.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

#85

Post by JoblessWonder » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 6:39 PM UTC

michaelmrose wrote: post #69

It looks like mad libs to me with all these little boxes in place of some of the letters. This appear to be little input boxes. You can grab and resize the box but it snaps back, you can also type in the box but it is quickly erased. Super ridiculous.

Mine only happens with the letter "i" or "I"... very weird.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

#86

Post by schoen » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 6:42 PM UTC

eyeareque wrote: post #58

What is in it for google to give these fonts away? Does it help them track people or learn about sites that use them?

The original story I heard was that it encouraged people to stop using images of text on the web (which used to be a common way to get custom typography in pages). The images of text are hard to index and search because they would require OCR and would lose other possible semantic information that might be present in a textual page. So Google hoped that people would choose to use these fonts and then represent textual information as text rather than as an image. It seems to have worked!

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

#87

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 6:50 PM UTC

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Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

#88

Post by franciscop » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 6:50 PM UTC

scotth wrote: post #11

SEMW wrote: post #4

Looks great in Chrome, completely broken in Firefox: https://i.imgur.com/XRMgcHp.png .

Hey SEMW, Sorry about that. The missing character detection can be a little finicky. Can I get a browser version / OS?

Firefox 46 on Ubuntu 16.04. Broken both with and without AdBlock (it's many time the source of pain points).

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

#89

Post by zanerino » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 6:51 PM UTC

I can't select 10 px font sizes with the slider on some fonts like "Space Mono." I can with others, and then can click the "Apply to all specimens" to update even the fonts I can't adjust with the slider control.

I'm using Firefox 47.0.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

#90

Post by schoen » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 6:51 PM UTC

di wrote: post #9

If anyone is curious about the sample text: * "All their equipment and instruments are alive." (Mr. Spaceship, by Philip K. Dick) * "A red flair silhouetted the jagged edge of a wing." (The Jewels of Aptor, by Samuel R. Delany) * "I watched the storm, so beautiful yet terrific." (Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley) * "Almost before we knew it, we had left the ground." (A Trip to Venus, by John Munro) * "A shining crescent…

There are also longer texts that you see if you change "Sentence" to "Paragraph". I don't know if they're from elsewhere in the same works or not.