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standalone FXP web site [message #4] Tue, 18 April 2017 16:42 Go to previous message
connie is currently offline  connie
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thanks to KRT, we now have an unofficial fully-functional standalone FXP image download & repo access site: https://freeslack.space/

this is very much a work in progress, especially since the official distribution name is in the air. the latest modifications included replacing Font Awesome[sic] clipart by images, which precipitated the following rant by yours truly:

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am I the only one sickened by the web designers' propensity to use the private use areas of utf 8 for public web-facing clipart? they are nuts! there are only 2 problems with that:

if a public web site assumes i have a font installed which has the same private use area glyphs as they do, fuck them.

if a public web site assumes i do NOT have a font installed which has DIFFERENT private use area glyphs, fuck them twice.

but of course these are the running assumptions, so they are basically hijacking the standard by misusing the private use areas.

last time i checked, there were 840000 unused codepoints in utf 8. awesome font implements 675 icons. web designers (of all genders) should just grow some chest hair and go back to using gifs, while their proposals for expanding the standard clipart pages are pending.
 
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