Aaah, that may explain why TheDiveO's plugin hasn't been updated in a while. I will definitely need to read up on this. FontAwesome also offers SVGs, and I would much rather avoid the issues called out in those articles.
Thanks! Joshua Fontany On Saturday, April 4, 2020 at 1:33:25 AM UTC-7, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Hi Tony > > It’s too late to change the interpretation of the icon field without > breaking backwards compatibility. > > Icon fonts like fontawesome are actually now somewhat controversial, and > aren't recommended for contemporary web development: > > https://cloudfour.com/thinks/seriously-dont-use-icon-fonts/ > > https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/its-2019-lets-end-the-debate-on-icon-fonts-vs-svg-icons/ > https://css-tricks.com/icon-fonts-vs-svg/ > > There are quite a few repositories of SVG icons that work very well with > TW5. For example: > > https://thenounproject.com/ > https://www.flaticon.com/ > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. > > On 4 Apr 2020, at 00:48, TonyM <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > Folks, > > I am always at a loss for icons especially for buttons but also elsewhere. > > - The Recently update FontAwesome is an example of a good source > - There are also hundreds of special characters available such as HTML > entities > - > > ☎ 9742 260E BLACK TELEPHONE > > - We have the icon field that allows us to add svg and bitmaps to > tiddlers > > What I am wondering is could we refactor the icon mechanism to not only > accept tiddlernames but also allow > fontawesome macros or html entities to be provided? > > eg; > > - `<fa-lbadge glyph:"fa-font-awesome-flag" fam:"fab">>` > - ☎ > > It should be easy insofar as there can be triggers such as &# or #x or > `<fa` > The trickiest part may be ensuring correct size. > CSS for Icons may also be helpful > > *Why?* > > Because the icon field promises by its generic naming to offer such a > feature and we could do with ready access to a larger range of Icons > > Regards > Tony > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWikiDev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/99c02712-84a8-4118-b665-1f5681d08acb%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/99c02712-84a8-4118-b665-1f5681d08acb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/96a61a2e-b7a5-4da0-8e12-fbfa9d887213%40googlegroups.com.
