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Google Fonts Redesigned

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Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by WorldMaker »

arebop wrote: post #128
WorldMaker wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it? The complaint at the time was the number of websites that outright blocked non-IE browsers rather than just letting the non-IE browsers try their best to render the pages, closing the web. Just because the tables are now turned it's appropriate for Google to break the open web? It seems evil from the standpoint of trying to support an open web (the arguments are the same now as they were back then), and it see…

works on Firefox and Safari as well as Chrome. There's a difference between the old-school Microsoft efforts to break competitors and current efforts to support a (popular) subset of browsers.

But the point is that with current standards, things that work on Firefox, Safari, and Chrome just work on Edge. It's extra effort on Google's part to throw up "not supported" banners and pretend like Edge is the worst scum and villainy on the planet. It's a terrible marketing effort disguised as "building a better web" and it's doing a disservice to the open web, modern standards, and basic common sense "do the right thing".

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by irrational »

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…

At my work we just decided this week that we will no longer support IE or Edge. We won't actively block them (or show a message) and if the site works in those browser then great. But, we won't test in IE or Edge and we won't make any bug fixes just for those browsers. Frankly the number of users using those browsers (low for our site) versus the number of hours required to fix problems with those browsers (high in our experience) makes it a poor business decision to continue to support them. Though, lets face it, some of the decision also come down to a sense of Schadenfreude after all the pain MS gave to web developers for so long. I started as a web developer in 1996 and I'd be delighted if both IE and Edge went away forever.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by toxican »

hanniabu wrote: post #24

I'm not sure how I feel about all these different phrases. I think it's easier to pick out which font I like when all the phrases are the same. The phrase "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" had been a great one because it contains every character in the alphabet so you can see how every letter will look at once.

Agreed. Although you can also type in a phrase of your own choosing and click "Apply to All" and it will.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by irrational »

Scarbutt wrote: post #16
SEMW wrote: post #4

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

No one tests on firefox anymore, is sad how firefox is being ignored more and more everyday.

In my department every developer uses a different browser as their primary browser. I only use Firefox, another only uses Chrome and another only uses Safari.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by SSLy »

vetinari wrote: post #117
scotth wrote: post #35

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Thanks. Looks like Linux needs some love. We'll be fixing this up asap.

FYI, same thing in firefox-47.0-4 in Fedora 23. Works fine in google-chrome-stable-51.0.2704.84-1.

Arch Linux user reporting in. Works fine in… uh… latest chromium (51.0.2704.84-1) and there are blocks in ff (47.0-1). Epiphany (3.20.2-1) horribly crashes, so bad even dev tools stop working.

I use infinality-bundle fontconfig preset.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by talmand »

Navarr wrote: post #120
plgs wrote: post #75

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Google Inbox is also blocked on Edge, which is sad. I wonder why they're blocking it. As you said, Edge works fine with most websites, it's not IE6...

Service Workers, maybe?

If you change the agent string to Chrome the page will load in IE, but it looks as broken as it is in Firefox for me.
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