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Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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

I have same issue in Chromium 51.0.2704.84, Arch Linux. I don't have google fonts installed, is that necessary?

We didn't have a chance to test specifically on Arch, but we think we got it. Let us know if it works out.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Expires is a HTTP/1.0 header, Cache-Control is HTTP/1.1 and used by anything created in the last 10-15 years. Most sites set the Expires header similar to their Cache-Control max-age, but I guess Google just doesn't care and it doesn't really matter anyway.

You might be right, but what I see in the browser dev tools is that my page always gets the CSS from Google Fonts and that does matter to me.

It loads from the cache in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE, and Edge for me.

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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'd be delighted if both IE and Edge went away forever. 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…

>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.

Edge is simply expansive to test for, because at the places where i worked the only windows laptops (that are locked down like Azkaban for obvious reasons) around were those of the sales people. Majority of the developers on linux, where the designers are on macs.

Unless it is actively formalized, Edge ends up not getting a lot of testing with anything we make.

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

Google might have fixed some of the issues now - it was a day ago many of the bug were raised. Just for reference, I was running ArchLinux with the Infinality font bungles.

It's fixed now. Thanks!

I didn't have the infinality fonts. I wonder what the bug was.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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"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.

Chromium doesn't contain the commercializatin Chrome does. In other words, they don't make as much money on you if you use the clean version.

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What is wrong with this page ? It looks awful with firefox 47.0 on Ubuntu ! [screen capture]( http://imgur.com/hqc6jp2 )

Problem disappeared after restarting firefox. You may safely ignore the reported problem.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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I’m not sure why but interfaces that consist only of red and black text look very unpleasant to me. I felt the same way when Apple started using red and black for things like iOS calendar highlights.

I suspect the reason is that they are both strong colors that compete for attention: black-on-white is high contrast and red is a color that generally “jumps out” from the page due to the eye’s perception of red. To keep the colors from competing, one of the text colors should be softer (and if they must have “red”, they should soften it to something that is closer to pastel or pink).

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Chromium of all browsers gets pestered all the time by Google services. It's... odd.

Google doesn't want you to use Chromium. Use Chrome instead, it's exactly like Chromium but with all the Google bloatware installed!

There isn't Chrome for FreeBSD. When I access google.com/chrome from Firefox under it, it says I needn't download it because my Chromebook does it by own means :) Shall I retry later on?
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