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Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by pmontra »

laumars wrote: post #73
SEMW wrote: post #4

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

I get the same in every browser I try on Linux. I don't get the point of this. I really don't. While far from perfect, web fonts have largely been a solved problem for a while now, so why are Google reinventing this wheel? This seems to happen all the time with the web; people taking old ideas and reinventing them again and again, in yet more bloated ways, breaking things for millions.

Not every browser on Ubuntu 16.04: Firefox displays those boxes but Vivaldi, Opera and Chromium work fine.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by keyle »

It's definitely an upgrade compared to the old version, but the fact that it needs a "Try typing directly into the... " hint shows the shortcoming of their UX. I didn't know what it meant, took me a few tries. I think it could be better. The hover of the fields should be more obvious that it's editable at least.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by vidarh »

mortenjorck wrote: post #19
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…

The first one on the list had convinced me this was a very interestingly-trained Markov chain generator. I need to read more Philip K. Dick.

If you want something that reads like a Markov chain output, try reading his Exegesis (basically written after/about his mental breakdown - it's fascinating, but makes his novels look like like reading)

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by coldpie »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #50
Scarbutt wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

This is a Google-specific problem. YouTube Gaming launched only working on Chrome as well. One of Google's web UI frameworks wrapped text by breaking words of any size mid-letter, if you weren't on Chrome for a while. (It would cut "the" if it felt like it during a word wrap.) My browser, Edge, is simply blocked on Google Fonts. It seems like Google is more and more dependent on automated testing for all if it's depl…

It's been said that Chrome is the new IE. It sounds like hyperbole until you get bit by it.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

coldpie wrote: post #244
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a Google-specific problem. YouTube Gaming launched only working on Chrome as well. One of Google's web UI frameworks wrapped text by breaking words of any size mid-letter, if you weren't on Chrome for a while. (It would cut "the" if it felt like it during a word wrap.) My browser, Edge, is simply blocked on Google Fonts. It seems like Google is more and more dependent on automated testing for all if it's depl…

It's been said that Chrome is the new IE. It sounds like hyperbole until you get bit by it.

This makes sense, because it has also been said that Google is the new Microsoft.

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

cyphar wrote: post #202
frogpelt wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like parent is saying Google is spending time to deliberately block/not support Edge.

How much time would they have to spend with support requests if they don't spend the small amount of time required to tell people to use something else? I understand your point, but I personally don't care about proprietary software not working with certain websites -- they chose to make it their problem alone. It sucks that Google isn't choosing to not support them because of _that_, it's because they've had bad exp…

Since when did Google accept support requests for their broken websites? o_o

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by textmode »

fonts.google*.com is similar to the Facebook "Like" button.

Google effort to inject themselves into websites that may have nothing to do with Google, read by users who may not even use Google.

Users may be far from Google search engine page or any Google controlled subsidiary Blogger, etc., yet their Google-authored? browser is still connecting to Google.

These Google font domains are among the many useless and annoying domains I block.

I remember the days when another large company was pushing "Web fonts". They asked the user to "install" the fonts; there was no "font server" and incessant phoning home.

Today that company forces 10GB+ downloads of their "updated" OS on users without unequivocal consent. The stories of systems crashing in Africa under the load and network admins puzzling over the effects of massive Windows Update traffic in Australia have been amusing.

Keep up the great work guys. Those "web fonts" are really amazing!

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by talmand »

lexicality wrote: post #238
talmand wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm using Inbox in FireFox right now with no issues at all?

My Firefox in OSX is fine, my Firefox in my Win8 VM is not. Really strange.
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