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Re:Announcing Unicode 7.0 by buster on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @04:06AM (#7908989)
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.

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Re:Announcing Unicode 7.0 by scrollaway on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @05:47PM (#7913076)
> 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.

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Re:Announcing Unicode 7.0 by buster on Thursday June 19, 2014 @01:51AM (#7914653)
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.

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