Re: [Tiki-devel] SVG vs fonts for icons was Re: [Tikiwiki-cvs/svn] SF.net SVN: tikiwiki:[51758] trunk

[luciash <lu...@ti...>]

BTW, I prefer SVG ;-) (mainly because when you need to create new icon 
it is easier than creating new character for a font set imho and 
sometimes on some devices the font may display funny characters instead 
of the desired icon)

luci


On 08/29/2014 01:26 PM, Marc Laporte wrote:
> Ok, so the two main theme wizards of Tiki don't have a preference /
> opinion on this.
>
> Does anyone else have one?
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Gary Cunningham-Lee
> <ga...@cu...> wrote:
>> Icons (font vs SVG) aren't a big issue for me. I can try to help
>> implement whatever method is agreed on, but I don't have any
>> preferences. The lead should probably be taken by someone who is more
>> passionate ;-) about it, or for whom it is a bigger issue.
>>
>> -- Gary
>>
>>
>> On 8/29/2014 11:06 AM, Torsten wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> as I have seen the discussione here in the list, I did review the
>>> resources mentioned on the page ...
>>> http://themes.tiki.org/Icons+SVG+or+Fonts
>>>
>>> I just started to look into the possibility to use  .SVG instead of FONT
>>> and so far I did find a bunch of discussion WHY to use SVG or not to use
>>> SVG instead of FONT when it goes to vektor-icons.
>>>
>>> I have mainly heard about possible issues in respect of browser
>>> compatibility towards SVG, but I did NOT find ANY VG icon sets for
>>> possible integration (with a very limited! time on research).
>>>
>>> At the bottom of the wikipage I added the licences for the icon FONTs
>>> mentioned on the wiki page.
>>>
>>> http://www.webhostinghub.com/glyphs  shows an example how to possibly
>>> achieve switchable "icon-sets", as they use the Bootstrap
>>> Glyphicon-Halfling names for their icons.
>>>
>>> Finally the PNG fallback seems to be already sorted in Tiki for FONT thx
>>> to our Bootstrap activists.
>>> For a convenient way of a PNG fallback for SVG I did not find further
>>> helpful information.
>>>
>>> => Conclusio => In my mind, if no serious arguments will be brought up,
>>> the actual path to FONT seems the best to do.
>>>
>>> In the end, when reviewing the licences, I see only Fontawesome and
>>> Glyphicon-Halflings so far (both already implemented) and optionally
>>> Monosocialiconsfont as "add-on".
>>>
>>> Maybe somebody digs out additional resources and projects?
>>>
>>> My another few cents - now wallet empty.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Torsten
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