FortAwesome/Font-Awesome — Issue #67: Increase speed of page
Author: Merg1255
Created: 2012-03-09 18:07:35+00:00
State: open

Hi! I was looking at the page download speed between native TB icons and the font-awesome. Although font-awesome is far better looking, there's a slight "issue" with downloading too many sources.

For example TB has one file with the icons, and then uses sprites. So, there are 2 files only to download, the css and the icons. Font-awesome does require all font files to be downloaded, which results in separate requests to the server, which consequently takes about 1s for page elements to display in the browser (in my machine when viewing with fresh cache the github page). Could there be a minified embedded base64 encoded version for the css, so fewer files would have to be downloaded?

Thanks!