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To further demonstrate what people with dyslexia who replace the font see:



One in ten people have dyslexia.

Its important to look @ browser stats and see whats being used the most :) (IE,firefox,etc)

We don't have access to that data. We have access to the browser data on phpbb.com and area51.phpbb.com, but due to its nature, it's not exactly typical usage.

It should be assumed that browser data is ...

I mean my current job title is "Performance Engineer", and I'm saying to use SVGs instead of icon fonts. I think you're overstating the issue.

Required viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xXBYcWgCHA

(seriously, really good talk)

We, and really most everyone else that wants to keep their sanity, do not support IE6 so if subsilver2 appears broken or inoperable in that browser, the developers won't be spending any time in trying to correct those issues. Plus subsilver2 is no more in 3.2.
Hmmm you mean they got rid of it ...

Pony, are you using an adblocker? Some of the more overzealous ones block icon fonts (have I mentioned yet that they suck?)

Also this https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/6133

hanakin wrote: Tue Sep 22, 2015 3:36 pm however it will still be at least two years before the browsers that still have limitation dwindle off

What are you referring to here?
http://caniuse.com/#feat=svg

Interesting that you choose to bring that up now, after it has been merged and the development time has been put in.
There has been plenty of time to voice any concerns.

I never saw the topic. I think I brought it up in real life at one of our events, but obviously couldn't cite people so was ...

As some browser vendors start recommending not to use icon fonts, why did we just start using one?!

https://twitter.com/brucel/status/616257010884059136
https://dev.opera.com/blog/opera-mini-server-upgrade/

http://www.sitepoint.com/final-nail-icon-fonts-coffin/
http://technotes.iangreenleaf.com ...