<div dir="ltr">Hi John,<div><br></div><div>I actually started doing that initially, with the base64 src of that exact image, but then found that it looked bad with custom CSS, since a PNG, unlike a font, embeds the color.</div><div><br></div><div>But, adding it into the CSS instead makes lots of sense. Great thinking.</div><div><br></div><div>Jason</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 6:03 PM, John Keeping <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@keeping.me.uk" target="_blank">john@keeping.me.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 04:42:12PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:<br>
> Seems like a very useful feature. I'd like some feedback on ➦ though.<br>
><br>
> It'd be nice to have this:<br>
> <a href="http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icon/external-link/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icon/external-link/</a><br>
> or this:<br>
> <a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f517/index.htm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f517/index.htm</a><br>
><br>
> But the former is overhead I won't accept and the latter isn't<br>
> available in all browsers.<br>
><br>
> Thoughts?<br>
<br>
</div></div>I'm not convinced by the arrow, I wonder if we'd be better off inlining<br>
Wikipedia's external link image [1] as base64; it's quite small and is<br>
licensed as GPLv2.<br>
<br>
It might be nice to move this into CSS with an "external_link" class and<br>
use :after to apply the image which will make per-site customization<br>
easier.<br>
<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icon_External_Link.png" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icon_External_Link.png</a><br>
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