<story><title>Pure CSS GUI icons (experimental)</title><url>http://nicolasgallagher.com/pure-css-gui-icons/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drdaeman</author><text>I don&apos;t get why this is &quot;awesome&quot;.&lt;p&gt;CSS for icons is like HTML tables for markup. You have a path, split it to pieces you can represent with CSS using the methods you consider acceptable and draw a shape using ::before and ::after pseudo-elements.&lt;p&gt;Sure, those icons were carefully hand-crafted. This requires a lot of patient work, and this is admirable.&lt;p&gt;Yet, we have SVG for vector graphics. Embed it with data: URIs (I believe browsers who support CSS3 transforms can display SVG backgrounds) and that&apos;s it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Pure CSS GUI icons (experimental)</title><url>http://nicolasgallagher.com/pure-css-gui-icons/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dualogy</author><text>Loving this. Unicode has some awesome symbol dingbats (not just arrows, even weather symbols, coffee cups and the likes) for UI icons too but this goes a step further and is more stylish (plus Android fonts don&apos;t have most dingbats, not even the arrows -- not sure about iOS).</text></comment>