Barely showing 2000 icons, and it brings a modern PC to its knees...
The page looks way better than it used to, also the tagging is done well, but the page performance is so bad it alone can keep me from purchasing a license.
First of all, they got a lot of money from the Kickstarter campaign, and they're pushing the pro version way too much.
The thing that annoyed me the most was that they changed most of the classes, making the thing incompatible with previous versions and forcing you to relearn everything. They did this to consolidate the code, but as users we don't give a damn about the code, just that the thing does what it's supposed to.
I tried using their SVG version, and it works completely different from the font version: no inheriting of font color, incorrect size compared to font, etc. (Font version is fine).
No CDN. Loading the thing is a pain in the ass.
I'm on mobile and can't write a lot, but you get the idea. It was still in beta and it's a product that I've normally gotten for free so I probably had high expectations for the paid version, but if I wasn't lazy I would've gotten a refund.
If your client is buying it, go for it. If it's your money, take your GF to dinner.
<div class="dn-pr flex-none bg-red5" id="javascript-disabled-bar" role="alert"> <div class="mw9 center bg-red7 pv4 ph4 ph6-l"> <h2 class="f4 fw6 mt0 mb1 white">Oi. You need to enable JavaScript.</h2> <p class="mv0 lh-copy red2">The Font Awesome website relies on JavaScript. <a class="link fw6 white underline-hover" href="http://www.enable-javascript.com" target="_blank">Enable JavaScript</a> and then we'll get you going.</p> </div> </div>
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[ 4.8 ms ] story [ 41.3 ms ] threadAlso looks like you're doing some kind of an infinite scroll implementation that doesn't work out so well.
Urgh!
The page looks way better than it used to, also the tagging is done well, but the page performance is so bad it alone can keep me from purchasing a license.
https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome
I bought it and it was the worst purchase I've made in a while.
They took some pretty idiotic decisions with v5.
The thing that annoyed me the most was that they changed most of the classes, making the thing incompatible with previous versions and forcing you to relearn everything. They did this to consolidate the code, but as users we don't give a damn about the code, just that the thing does what it's supposed to.
I tried using their SVG version, and it works completely different from the font version: no inheriting of font color, incorrect size compared to font, etc. (Font version is fine).
No CDN. Loading the thing is a pain in the ass.
I'm on mobile and can't write a lot, but you get the idea. It was still in beta and it's a product that I've normally gotten for free so I probably had high expectations for the paid version, but if I wasn't lazy I would've gotten a refund.
If your client is buying it, go for it. If it's your money, take your GF to dinner.