Materialdesign: Planning for v2.0.xx

[Templarian]

You know what would be fun, planning for v2.0.xx release.

While 1.9.32 was about renames/breaking changes. Ironically it's looking like the v2.0.xx should be a little less breaking.

Tasks

• [x] Naming fixes?
• [ ] Drop IE8 Support. :before, ::before
• [ ] Only include WOFF, WOFF2, TTF (included not used).

Icons

• [ ] #180 - Calculator Icons
• [ ] #263 - Image Editor Selection Types
• [ ] #302 - Weight LB / g
• [ ] #393 - email-box & link-box
• [ ] #400 - Geometry
• [ ] #409 - Flickr
• [ ] #480 - piggybank
• [ ] #521 - chess icons (with -outline variants)
• [ ] #541 - Weather Icons - Review which are still needed
• [ ] #561 - library-video
• [ ] #1034 - GPU
• [ ] #1323 - hammer
• [ ] #1422 - Linux Distros
• [x] #1426 - EU Powersocket
• [ ] #1578 - Playing Card Suits
• [ ] #1858 - Starred List
• [ ] #1913 - A Few Aliases
• [ ] #1968 - Restore / reset icon

[MrGrigri]

I believe for issue #1422, we should only include the most common. And according to Distrowatch^†, the top 10 for 2016 were:

• Mint
• Debian
• Ubuntu
• OpenSUSE
• Manjaro
• Fedora
• Zorin
• elementary
• CentOS
• Arch

And of corse, we must take into account those icons that will not look recognizable at a 24x24 size.

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^†: Distrowatch

[Templarian]

@MrGrigri / Others feel free to edit my comment to extend the list with bullet points.

[PeterShaggyNoble]

Added #521 & #1323.

[Templarian]

If we drop IE8 support complete which kind of is the plan for the next version... I think we can drop all the other fonts than woff / woff2 / ttf.

Over on the official set @Pomax wrote a good write up here on why it's probably a good idea.

We're really going to be targeting Bootstrap v4 realistically going forward and even that is IE10+ (we'll have IE9+).

[Templarian]

He's right we could drop legacy mobile versions also and leave out ttf also. Need to look into that, unfortunately I don't have stats to see who still really uses that.

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/using-font-face/#article-header-id-1

[JamesCoyle]

I use TTF to install as a system font.

[Templarian]

@JamesCoyle https://materialdesignicons.com/design You want the design download, not the webfont. This is released after every version also.

[JamesCoyle]

Ah so there's still a TTF available. I'm all for getting rid of the TTF webfont. Personally think it's time to abandon IE and anything before Android Lollipop (though best to support KitKat too).

[PeterShaggyNoble]

Anything that helps kill off IE gets my vote! 😆

Personally, for the benefit of those who _do_ use it as a system font and may not be aware of the design resources page, I'd like to see the TTF still included in the download, even if it's not in the CSS.

[Pomax]

Note that in terms of official support, Microsoft only supports IE11 and Edge "latest", with IE9 support for Windows Vista SP2 users having ended literally 2 days ago (hurray!).

Both IE11 and Edge support WOFF, but due to EOL promises IE11 will stay supported for as long as Windows 10 is, as that's the browser that it technically came with... that said, realistically you're looking at IE11 support until windows 7 goes out of support in 2020.

[Templarian]

Thanks @Pomax, looks like that will be the plan for the next release.

Will work to update the build scripts shortly to remove these fonts (still going to include the TTF file in the build since it's useful for devs, and I don't think they are the type to go and grab the large SVG design package).

Other than this, 2.0.xx has really no large changes that should affect users that are coming from v1.9.32 or even v1.8.36. Users from v1.7.22 might have a small hickup with a few icons and all the CSS updates, but nothing that can't be solved in a few minutes.

[Templarian]

Still working on the backlog, but there are 2000 icons in MDI currently. Still need to get more in before the next release.

[Templarian]

Going to be wrapping up several icons this week/weekend and doing a release. Probably going to rollover a lot of these to a new issue when that happens. It will be roughly ~2.0.20 version.

Just need to drop support for the legacy browsers.

[Templarian]

The icon count we're at right now is the release for v2.0.46, fixing a few issues due to the server migration in the webfont build process. 😄

[Templarian]

https://materialdesignicons.com/cdn/2.0.46/

Doing some testing and will update the bower/npm shortly.

[Templarian]

NPM/Bower release is out for SVG 2.0.46: https://github.com/templarian/materialdesign-svg

Ran into a minor regression bug that prevented me from releasing yesterday. Will be releasing tomorrow, then back to adding tons of icons. 😓 😄

[Templarian]

By the way npm/bower were updated to 2.0.46.

Now we play the waiting game to see if anything broke. Building more rigorous automated testing, but might need to start putting in code review checks with others before releases.

https://cdn.materialdesignicons.com/2.0.46/
The svg directory will also be the repo for those needing the meta.json outside of the CDN.

Will update the website tomorrow with the new version numbers.

[Templarian]

Closing moving discussion over to #2280