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Never, ever, ever disable functionailty based on someone's user agent. Just let it be broken, because spoiler alert: it's probably usable anyway.
Looks great in Chrome, completely broken in Firefox: https://i.imgur.com/XRMgcHp.png .
They probably did: font-family: Something Instead of: font-family: 'Something' FF has given me this issue for years.
font-family: "Jaldi script=latin rev=2"
I still have the same problem I had with the old UI: The only reason I come to this site to get the copy/paste one liner to put a certain font on my site, but every time it takes me a few minutes to find it
1. Click a font's plus icon 2. Click on "1 Family Selected" 3. Copy the embed link from the dialog. How is that hard?
"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 o…
Where I work, we need to use IE for many things, and we have exactly one piece of software that requires a different browser. If in the future, I have the opportunity to replace that product with something that also works in IE, I will, without hesitation. Because the frustration caused by the one IE-incompatible software outweighs the benefit it could possibly provide over a competitor.
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…
"She stared through the window at the stars" is just too common a phrase :-) A simple google search suggests a hit in atleast 3-4 books.
"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…
Chromium of all browsers gets pestered all the time by Google services. It's... odd.
6 times scrolling ends up with 210 new requests. really? Is this really needed or can't it be improved easily with bigger range of pagination size?
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 textua…