Re:Announcing Unicode 7.0
by scrollaway on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @07:39PM
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If you think using pngs instead of fonts is going to save your oh-so-precious mobile device's memory, you got another thing coming.
Which only shows that you know nothing.
A unicode font can come in at about 20MB, but let's add more tiny pictures and make it 100MB, so that i can see the snowman on your webpage (which would be probably 2-5 kB as png).
Why should my browser load thousands of pictures that are never used?!
Yes, it's ridiculous.
Re:Announcing Unicode 7.0
by scrollaway on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @05:47PM
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> A unicode font can come in at about 20MB, but let's add more tiny pictures and make it 100MB
You're pulling numbers out of your ass. You also clearly don't know how font fallbacks work, despite having been told how they work in this very thread. Several times.
No, Arial Unicode MS: 22,1 MB. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_font
And you clearly don't understand that a) this thread contains unicode that my browser still doesn't show, despite your magic fallback and b) the fonts stil contain garbage that has nothing to do with fonts.
I say it again: If you want pictures and cliparts, use .png. If you want to write actual text, use fonts. It's as simple as that.