History: Icons SVG or Fonts

Candidates

• http://thomaspark.me/2013/11/glyphsearch-improving-the-search-for-icon-fonts/
• http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/
  • added to trunk r51759, r51760
• http://24ways.org/2011/displaying-icons-with-fonts-and-data-attributes
• http://www.webhostinghub.com/glyphs/
  • Contains a Tiki logo !
  • Is this licensing good? http://www.webhostinghub.com/glyphs/#howToUse
• http://fontello.com/
• http://bootsnipp.com/buttons
• Social Icons - http://drinchev.github.io/monosocialiconsfont/
• http://css-tricks.com/icon-fonts-vs-svg/
• http://ianfeather.co.uk/ten-reasons-we-switched-from-an-icon-font-to-svg
• http://www.flaticon.com/packs
• http://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_icon_sets

Notes

• some glyphicons come with bootstrap (http://getbootstrap.com/components/), but the variety is not enough, we need more icons
• font-awesome seems to be a good addition both from variety and licensing point
• both glyphicons and font-awesome icons are managed now with smarty functions (lib/smarty_tiki/), so in the tpl files you only need to add the name of the icon, eg:

{glyph name="plus"} or {fa name="automobile"}

• how can you easily change icon if you dont like what is shipped by Tiki? Can it be mananed simply by adding the image path to your preferred icon in the custom css file?