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Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by iambateman »

fortawesome wrote: post #18
iambateman wrote: post #4

So FontAwesome 4 isn't backwards compatible, right? I wonder how much faster it is.

We've been seeing as high as 30% in webkit. Hoping to write the findings up. It's especially hard as pretty much every browser has killed off their CSS profiler.

30% is great! Font Awesome is sooo sick.

Btw, is there a cheatsheet for those of us using FA3 still? Or are all the old icons interchangeable with "fa-" and "icon-"? Yes there is: http://fontawesome.io/3.2.1/

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by sjs382 »

rschmitty wrote: post #72
sjs382 wrote: post #63

If you're like me and need access to the previous version's documentation, I'm hosting it at http://fontawesome.http410.com .

Thx, but it is also available http://fontawesome.io/3.2.1/

Awesome. Mind if I ask how you found that?

I couldn't find a link to this, so I just forked the gh-pages repo.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by ceejayoz »

skore wrote: post #45
fortawesome wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried taking designs from other folks. The quality wasn't good enough, so I stopped.

Ah, so the old "you don't like my pull request, so I will tell people you're not Open Source". Classic.

Some people apparently think "open source" means "anyone can commit whatever they like to the main repository", which is odd.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by nvk »

ceejayoz wrote: post #75
skore wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, so the old "you don't like my pull request, so I will tell people you're not Open Source". Classic.

Some people apparently think "open source" means "anyone can commit whatever they like to the main repository", which is odd.

- Can't do pull requests on the graphics. - Can't download the svgs.

The only thing that is open source is the implementation.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by Yaa101 »

thekingshorses wrote: post #41

Is this better than http://icomoon.io/app ? I can create my own font file with icomoon so it only contains the icons that I needed for my site. Only issue I have is that there is no way to save the created font file so that I can modify later.

As far as I know they use the fontforge engine (as it is scriptable from the commandline) to drive icomoon, it is very easy to load the fontfile you created with icomoon into fontforge, load another instance of fontforge with a new fontfile created on icomoon and do copy/paste between them. Of course you can also load the original fontfiles that icomoon works with and use them into fontforge.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by ris »

What I see on that page: one hell of a lot of unicode placeholders and not much else.

We don't all agree with a site's font choices.

And at least img made an attempt at semantic meaning and accessibility with alt= attributes. The failure modes for img are actually quite good. There's no such concern in the minds of those who gave birth to icon fonts.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by taspeotis »

sjs382 wrote: post #74
rschmitty wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thx, but it is also available http://fontawesome.io/3.2.1/

Awesome. Mind if I ask how you found that? I couldn't find a link to this, so I just forked the gh-pages repo.

It's not called out directly, but it's linked to from here [1].

[1] http://fontawesome.io/get-started/

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