John Holt Ripley John is a front end developer at Linney Design, and has been building web content for well over a decade. Creating rich, accessible sites is his focus, but any spare time left over after spending time with his wife and two daughters is dedicated to his very long running game development project. He’s often heard repeating “Yes, but what happens when JavaScript is disabled?”, and wondering whose turn it is to make the tea.
A while ago, I was working on a website that required a number of icons. “No problem,” I thought. “I know how to handle this. I’ll use an @font-face icon set for high-resolution screens. It’ll be a single file, to reduce HTTP requests, and I’ll include just the icons that I need, to reduce file size.”
“I’ll even use a Unicode character as the base of the icon, so that if @font-face... Read More
