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">>`
>    - &#9742;
>    
> 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
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