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by jrmuizel 5085 days ago
The rasterization of the Unicode character will be cached in the glyph cache just like the rest of the glyphs, so the GIF is not really any cheaper.
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lucian1900 5085 days ago
Ok, SVG, character and GIF are better than a bunch of CSS :)
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hei_zen 5085 days ago
You misunderstood a lot of things. Most importantly that replacing a graphic with a unicode char has something to do with CSS :-)
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lucian1900 5085 days ago
My original comment is a reply to the suggestion to use a CSS icon.
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user-id 5085 days ago
Well, using the :before or :after pseudo-selector and content property is a possibility.
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