Re:The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing
by toothbrush on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @09:04AM
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> I hope the emoji example doesn't catch on though. I found the example in that article harder to understand than the opaque version.
I hope so too, but for different reasons. Because loading of exotic fonts is of dubious safety [can't find a reasonable citation] and i'm a tinfoil hatter [no citation needed], i've turned off CSS remote fonts, leaving me with the following rendition of the emoji example :p
Re:The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing
by chrisseaton on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @10:43AM
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People who use emoji generally aren't using CSS remote fonts, so that isn't your problem. Emoji is part of the Unicode standard, so most modern system fonts support it by default. If you can't see the emoji then the problem is your system has out of date fonts, not that remote fonts are turned off.
Re:The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing
by toothbrush on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @04:20AM
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Interesting! Indeed when i tried the URL in a random not-locked-down browser, i had the same issue :). Thanks for the tip, i'll look into that then.
Re:The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing
by dagw on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @09:06AM
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It seems to be a particularly strong vice of British academic authors. I tend to favour American texts as a result.
Funny. At least at the university textbook level I tend to find that US books cost twice as much, have 3-4 times the page count and cover half the topics compared to UK books.
I hope the emoji example doesn't catch on though. I found the example in that article harder to understand than the opaque version.