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Re:MDN (beta) is now built with React by lousken on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @01:01PM (#20451804)
When did inlining svg icons become a thing? I've always seen things like font awesome.
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Re:MDN (beta) is now built with React by ricardobeat on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @01:27PM (#20452060)
Inline SVG has several advantages over icon fonts, which were never meant to exist:

- immediate rendering

- multi-color icons without any stacking tricks

- flexible styling

- better aliasing, more consistent rendering

- can be animated

- easily load only assets used on the page vs a sheet of hundreds, most never used

- works well with rendering libraries like React, makes manipulating images very easy

- compresses well with gzip, no need for symbols

It’s becoming standard practice for good reasons.

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Re:MDN (beta) is now built with React by jraph on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @04:58PM (#20453838)
- works for people who block web fonts
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