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What is in it for google to give these fonts away? Does it help them track people or learn about sites that use them?
Yes, you hotlink the web font files from their servers. Much like their public DNS servers, their public font registry pays them in data.
"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…
To be fair Edge is a pretty solid browser these days, I don't think you can put them on the same league. I've been using it for some time now and other than a slightly different font rendering engine I have yet to find a fault on it; everything works like you would expect in a modern browser. Development wise, we test for Edge ocasionally and so far we haven't come across Edge-specific quirks like the good ol' days of IE.
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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.
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…
Refreshing to see something other than lorem ipsum.
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…
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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…
I mean, that's fair for you to make that business decision, but if I'm a customer of yours and having issues, and I find out you're not supporting me, I'm just going to do business with someone else. And if that's fine with you, it's fine with me too. 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 t…
This is a gorgeous redesign that really lets the typography shine, as well as deftly addressing numerous usability issues with the old site. The family size filter in particular makes finding a usable set of weights much easier, and the featured section adds a welcome new layer of curation. Two minor observations: - It would be a great addition to the family size slider to be able to filter for "contains italics." So…
Are you using chrome? It looks pretty dumb in firefox. It looks like this. http://imgur.com/IT7x83h
Todd Motto did a bit of an analysis of the client-side, angular performance: https://mobile.twitter.com/toddmotto/status/7427897282573557... "Google Fonts is doing some amazing work on performance, no ng-repeats - superfast DOM rendering. "
Still they don't offer any font+css download opportunity in the way that font squirrel does. You have to do it by hand or be stuck with their CDN. How bad.