FontAwesome fail back

WoodiE · Jan 27, 2014

I've seen a number of resources and even styles that are using the FontAwesome icons which I think is pretty neat and looks good.

But all of the resources or styles seem to all link back to FontAwesome for the icons. It would be neat if there was a way for it to default to the FontAwesome site and in the rare event they become unavailable or down we could fail over to a local install.

This possible?

Steve F · Jan 27, 2014

You can download Font-Awesome and upload it to your server, add the link to <head> to reference where it is on your server. We do this with our style framework already.

http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/get-started/#default-css

WoodiE · Jan 27, 2014

Well I would prefer to serve from their site using:

Code:

<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-awesome.css" rel="stylesheet">

but was just thinking in the case that their site was down the stylesheet would load locally, but now looking closer it appears to be served from a CDN which having the entire CDN network down doesn't seem all that likely.

FontAwesome fail back

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