Alexandre Dantas <eu@alexdantas.net> writes: > Hello, Nils Dagsson! > Thanks for pointing out this issue! I feel relieved. Many web developers I know do not appreciate it if one points out errors pertaining to accessability, claiming. > I'm using "Glyphicons"[0] to show small icons on the page. They're > part of Bootstrap, a largely used web framework. In my circle of friends, we have a sarcastic saying that goes like “Just use Bootstrap. Just use jQuery. Just use MySQL. Just use PHP.” etc. – pointing out that more often than people think, “widely used” does not necessarily translate into “prevents more issues than it creates”. > This issue, where it shows strange symbols, occurs when it's unable > to load a font that's present on the Git repository. But I tested > the site on several browsers, across different operational systems > and distros and it seemed OK. Making a web site dependent on fonts is not a good thing. I suggest that glyphicons – and any icon font that does not use Unicode codepoints – is fundamentally broken, as it uses private semantics in a public space. This means, for example, that if the author or user ever changes the font, it does not look right – literally a lock-in effect for fonts. Additionally, using the wrong characters breaks copy and paste. > I agree with the point that it should have Unicode characters, > but the support for individual glyphs is somewhat sparse [1]. > > So I've decided to provide both alternatives - use custom font > for modern browsers (with the @font-face attribute) and an > Unicode fallback with look-alike glyphs. Thank you, it looks better now! Since you are obviously able to do without glyphicons, why not use a font that has the glyphs on the correct code points and include that via CSS? > I hope the website gets displayed nicely now. It does indeed, reminding me to draw more of the missing Unifont glyphs. > If you still have issues with it feel free to point them out, > I'm glad to work on the Games Team website. When my browser window is is very wide, I see “Get Involved”, “Wiki”, “Packages”, “Choose Theme” at the top. When it is not so wide, those things disappear. I cannot find them. > Also, thanks for the link to that chart and congratulations for > your hard work! I heard about GNU Unifont before and am glad to > be able to talk to you. I believe work on most parts of GNU Unifont was done by Paul Hardy, so you better thank him. ;) You can see here the stuff that I have drawn: <http://daten.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/pics/icons/unifont-symbols-emoji.png> I started doing that since the Symbola icons were too hard to read for me at small font sizes and few fonts contained Characters from Unicode 7.0. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
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