Web Development with Visual FoxPro
FontAwesome Web Fonts & CSS vs SVG & JS
Gravatar is a globally recognized avatar based on your email address. FontAwesome Web Fonts & CSS vs SVG & JS
  Richard Kaye
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  Dec 10, 2025 @ 04:00am

Hi Rick,

I've been using the FA Pro version in my app using the web fonts & CSS implementation almost since we started using WWC. I was curious if you had any perspective/experience using the SVG & JS approach to share. Is it worthwhile to go with the latter, more modern implementation?

TIA

Gravatar is a globally recognized avatar based on your email address. re: FontAwesome Web Fonts & CSS vs SVG & JS
  Rick Strahl
  Richard Kaye
  Dec 10, 2025 @ 01:39pm

I've stuck with the WebFonts because it's the easiest and it just works. The SVG and JS routines require some setup and potential client side build process help to effectively use them plus the HTML page syntax ends up being different and IMHO much more awkward.

The downside is you have to load all fonts files - which are not trivial in size - up front, but... they load once and then cache.

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Gravatar is a globally recognized avatar based on your email address. re: FontAwesome Web Fonts & CSS vs SVG & JS
  Richard Kaye
  Rick Strahl
  Dec 11, 2025 @ 02:59am

Thanks! That is my inclination as well but I didn't have a good reason to support that perspective.

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