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Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by taco_emoji » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 2:28 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...

I've yet to find a Chrome plugin that does what Toggle Animated GIFs does for Firefox.

Anybody know of one?

I'm 100% in favor of breaking up a wall of text with images, but too many bloggers favor distracting animated ones. In my perfect world, they'd be a still frame with a play button, like any other embedded video.

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by edgarvaldes » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 2:35 PM UTC

RyanMcGreal wrote: post #64

Thankfully, a lot of these don't work in Firefox.

Same here (FF on Linux Mint)

Working: anaglyph, emboss, fire, fire-animation, neon, outline, 3d and 3d-float.

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by wtallis » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 2:41 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.

NoScript also has surrogate scripts that replace what was blocked with a minimal script to un-break sites. It's usually used to fool a site with first-party scripts enabled into thinking that the third-party scripts loaded, too, but there are also scripts that allow a site to work without any of its scripts being enabled. The changelog currently show that they recently added a surrogate to allow some troublesome wordpress themes to work without scripting, and to allow the Microsoft support site to show article content without scripting.

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by html5web » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 2:45 PM UTC

Google Font Effects in use: http://codepen.io/mindconcepts/pen/EjWORQ

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by ashmud » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 2:45 PM UTC

Outline could be legitimately useful, such as for subtitles.

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by Ambroos » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 2:47 PM UTC

sz4kerto wrote: post #6

Web people, please don't start to use effects that are only supported by one single rendering engine (okay, Blink+Webkit).

Many of these work in most browsers. Google's fonts API only serves CSS and font files specific to the browser. Open the following links in different browsers and watch it change: http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Rancho&effect=shadow-...

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by Arzh » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 3:02 PM UTC

wtallis wrote: post #73

Arzh wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

NoScript also has surrogate scripts that replace what was blocked with a minimal script to un-break sites. It's usually used to fool a site with first-party scripts enabled into thinking that the third-party scripts loaded, too, but there are also scripts that allow a site to work without any of its scripts being enabled. The changelog currently show that they recently added a surrogate to allow some troublesome word…

yeah but it is an unfortunate game of wackamole. I really wish I could turn off JS but when I did, I would always just end up with no other option.

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by frandroid » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 3:11 PM UTC

Why???

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by baldfat » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 3:36 PM UTC

Igglyboo wrote: post #54

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?

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.

It certainly becomes less and less annoying after you use it for a few months. That way you only get annoyed by new sites.

Used it for 6 months switched machines and didn't want to go through the learning curve again.

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by Frondo » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 3:52 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...

I'd skip NoScript, and replace it with...

Ghostery: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/ghostery/

and Cookie Block: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-block/

Good blocking of trackers and off-brand cookies, but without dealing with the whitelisting of new/broken sites all the time.