https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64789
--- Comment #8 from Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> --- SVG images are supported by IE 9 and newer; with the technique used in MediaWiki, IE 8 and older receive raster PNG images instead. I find it hard to imagine that anyone would be using these browsers on a computer with a hidpi screen anyway. Font icons have the obvious drawback of requiring you to use non-semantic text in page content (which might confuse screen readers and is problematic when coupled with the way we do CSS caching) or ::before / ::after selectors in CSS which are not supported by old IE (which you say you want to support). In addition, cross-browser support requires generating like four files in different formats (if I remember correctly). Keeping them all synchronised, or even just editing them at all, is a major pain especially in an open environment like ours. Font icons do have the advantage of making it possible to use different colors for one icon asset, but… are you seriously going to use one icon in different colors in your design? I don't see how they would be noticeably more or less performant than alternative techniques – can you elaborate? MediaWiki's ResourceLoader includes facilities for automatic embedding of images inside the CSS styles, reducing the number of HTTP requests, which is usually the only argument against using separate source files for separate icons. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
