Nate Lampton

This seems like it would be a great followup to #356, where we want to replace the Admin Bar favicon with an icon.

Thanks @dboulet, that's very helpful. Looks like SIL OFL is compatible with GPL and can easily be bundled: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=OFL-FAQ_web#e71fabc0 Font Awesome looks like it ranges between 80KB and 300KB fully...

> and please stop saying that everything in Backdrop is GPL or a compatible license. Can you suggest a different phrasing that we could use on our licensing page/README? We...

The wording around generic non-GPL licenses seems like it could be tough to follow. Let's try to be explicit in any non-GPL items and just list them specifically in the...

I connected with the front-end Lullabots (where I work) on this. 5 of 5 front-end 'bots agree that icon fonts are "not cool". With front-end technology changing so quickly and...

I started trying to figure out what this would look like from an implementation stand-point. My first thought was that it would be registered as a library in system.module, like...

> To take advantage of font-awesome we need to change markups everywhere in core to replace image tags with span tag so making it a library might not give us...

> Mentioned that CSS styling was not possible yet with SVG's, but it seems to work? So now I'm confused. You can only use CSS styling on inline SVGs (embedded...

The advantage is that doing one HTTP request to retrieve all the icons at once is more efficient/faster than doing separate HTTP requests for each individual image. Since browsers typically...

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