Comment on Introducing Decentralized Social Icons

lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Can I ask seriously why the hraka do icons have to be a font? *.png has existed since… well, almost since before I existed. Not to mention stuff like CSS imagegrids.

Pretty much everywhere I go and open a webpage, I’m first met with text symbols that are something like “Á” or “§” and I can’t figure out what are they for unless I hovertext over them and the link says something like “sign up” or “join our Discord”… then I realize that, sure thing, the site relies on a remote connection to fontawesome to even display their menus correctly. Of course since I use uBO, I have remote resource connections disabled unless they’re needed ones.

If anything, I’m at least pleased that these are not huge ass-SVG banners that are like 4 to 6 screen tall bird or globe icons that a remote javascript is supposed to redraw as social icons of an adequate, small size. But at least one thing that is good about using images is that they have an accessible fallback: the alt attribute, or the title if you are lazy. To my knowledge, fonts don’t have such an accessible fallback on HTML.

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