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Comment by stonogo | Hacker News Reader

I guess I'm used to nearly a megabyte of javascript coming over the network, but...

Four embedded fonts? Just to get the character ⓘ and a checkmark, both of which are just regular unicode characters that these font files mis-encode?

Does anyone even look at anything any more?

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In FireFox you can set gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled to false in about:config and have a much faster web experience.

It's especially super useful on mobile.

That renders this site more broken though, since there's just brown squares all over the page instead of characters from whatever font. I suppose due to no fallback?

Most of the fonts loaded are variations of Open Sans, which are used throughout the pages. We'll look into improving the degradation when the icon font loads; it's just the Octicon font set. Thanks for pointing this out.

Why not use whatever font hn uses? hehe

Instead of using Octicon, you could use the Unicode characters for circle-i U+24D8, checkmark U+2713, and calendar U+1F4C5.

You can subset the font with Fontello.

http://fontello.com

It's probably some extension, because my 0-extension Chrome loads just two images, one CSS, one JS: https://i.imgur.com/kyhBCF9.png

Are you sure? There's a lot of stuff going on here, and I'm on Firefox. No adblocker or any addons that meddle with page requests or content. https://i.imgur.com/e141uBx.png

You're looking at the real HN, not at the Status Page HN..

ahh... so thats what all those those empty square boxes are

they don't fail very gracefully

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