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by et-al 3586 days ago
Except that would require multiple web requests unless you were using an image sprite. Font Awesome and Glyphicons solve this by using a font file or sprite.

I do wish they didn't overwrite the traditional <i> tag, but I guess we're supposed to be using <em> for semantic HTML.

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> Except that would require multiple web requests unless you were using an image sprite.

So … it can be made to work with a single request then.

Yup, and Glyphicons does that.