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Re: Google Font Effects

#51

Post by ponytech » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:56 PM UTC

None of them seems to be supported by Internet Explorer ?

Re: Google Font Effects

#52

Post by sccxy » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:57 PM UTC

ponytech wrote: post #51

None of them seems to be supported by Internet Explorer ?

Google is playing angry teenager again.

Re: Google Font Effects

#53

Post by ponyous » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:59 PM UTC

coldpie wrote: post #39

Great, now someone needs to write a "disable animated fonts" extension. Extensions required to make the web usable: AdBlock: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ NoScript: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ Toggle Animated GIFs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-animat...

> Extensions required to make the web usable:

> NoScript: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/

Can you elaborate, how does noscript makes web more usable?

Re: Google Font Effects

#54

Post by Igglyboo » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 1:10 PM UTC

ponyous wrote: post #53

coldpie wrote: post #39

Great, now someone needs to write a "disable animated fonts" extension. Extensions required to make the web usable: AdBlock: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ NoScript: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ Toggle Animated GIFs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-animat...

> Extensions required to make the web usable: > NoScript: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ Can you elaborate, how does noscript makes web more usable?

AFAIK most people use Noscript for privacy/security reasons, there's no way it makes the web more usable considering how prevalent javascript is these days.

Re: Google Font Effects

#55

Post by draugadrotten » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 1:18 PM UTC

fsloth wrote: post #45

"When making headers or display texts on your website, you'll often want to stylize your text in a decorative way." Oh dear. "..with minimal effort to produce beautiful display text" The original fonts are tweaked painstakingly by a designer. The "effects" are like putting lipstick on Mona Lisa. Web site design is now a branch of publishing and design and Google is one of the larger corps operating in the area. This…

> Schoolkids will love these exciting tweaks, no doubt.

Plenty of money in that demographic; when Google can track schoolkids habits they can predict their future habits as adults and be the first to sell the best ads. Google (and Target) knows about the first pregnancy before the mother.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...

Re: Google Font Effects

#56

Post by coldpie » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 1:21 PM UTC

ponyous wrote: post #53

coldpie wrote: post #39

Great, now someone needs to write a "disable animated fonts" extension. Extensions required to make the web usable: AdBlock: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ NoScript: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ Toggle Animated GIFs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-animat...

> Extensions required to make the web usable: > NoScript: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ Can you elaborate, how does noscript makes web more usable?

Sure. Lots of websites have really questionable javascript behavior, like replicating mobile behavior where dragging the mouse around makes you "swipe" between articles, or in-line image resizing (wikipedia), or auto-rotating image galleries, or shitty page-loading effects like fading text in, or breaking your scrollbar.

NoScript eliminates that kind of garbage.

In addition to this, there's the privacy benefits, lowering your page load time and CPU usage, and avoiding running arbitrary programs on your computer loaded off the internet, which is how GitHub was DDOSed last month.

For an average, non-technical user, I wouldn't recommend NoScript. But if you're willing to put up with a little annoyance of allowing two or three domains now and then, it really makes a lot of webpages behave better.

Re: Google Font Effects

#57

Post by hyh1048576 » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 1:29 PM UTC

One bad thing about using computer in China is, anything Google-related either is painfully slow or deliberately blocked (by GFW). On some website, google-analytics.com become a major speed reducer (browser says something like "sending data to google-analytics.com"). Using fonts.googleapis.com have a similar effect.

Chinese people would have to wait until some Chinese company make similar things available.

Re: Google Font Effects

#58

Post by Arzh » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 1:30 PM UTC

coldpie wrote: post #56

ponyous wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Extensions required to make the web usable: > NoScript: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ Can you elaborate, how does noscript makes web more usable?

Sure. Lots of websites have really questionable javascript behavior, like replicating mobile behavior where dragging the mouse around makes you "swipe" between articles, or in-line image resizing (wikipedia), or auto-rotating image galleries, or shitty page-loading effects like fading text in, or breaking your scrollbar. NoScript eliminates that kind of garbage. In addition to this, there's the privacy benefits, lowe…

except the fact that many sites use js to render anything so it makes most of the web unusable unless you turn it off.

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by coldpie » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 1:35 PM UTC

Arzh wrote: post #58

coldpie wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure. Lots of websites have really questionable javascript behavior, like replicating mobile behavior where dragging the mouse around makes you "swipe" between articles, or in-line image resizing (wikipedia), or auto-rotating image galleries, or shitty page-loading effects like fading text in, or breaking your scrollbar. NoScript eliminates that kind of garbage. In addition to this, there's the privacy benefits, lowe…

except the fact that many sites use js to render anything so it makes most of the web unusable unless you turn it off.

Yup, it's a trade-off. You have to view fading-in-text and put up with broken scrollbars; I have to click "Temporarily Allow" a couple times a day.

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by seanmcdirmid » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 1:41 PM UTC

hyh1048576 wrote: post #57

One bad thing about using computer in China is, anything Google-related either is painfully slow or deliberately blocked (by GFW). On some website, google-analytics.com become a major speed reducer (browser says something like "sending data to google-analytics.com"). Using fonts.googleapis.com have a similar effect. Chinese people would have to wait until some Chinese company make similar things available.

Or you just get screwed if you are in China using the western web without a VPN. I find that about 20-30% of the sites actually work, not because they are explicitly blocked by the GFW, because they are using some Google API/font/analytics.

Thankfully, reddit and hackernews are good, and they have pretty much become the web for me while I'm at home (we have a direct connection at work).