Are the Font Awesome 3.2 docs still accessible?

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I am using Font Awesome 3.2. Font Awesome just released version 4.0. Prior to the 4.0 release I would view Font Awesome's documentation at http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/. The new version has differing icon names and makes it difficult to work between the old and new documentation.

Are the 3.2 docs still available? Can I download 3.2 docs?

score 49 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 24 '13 at 22:05

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The documentation for 3.2.1 has been archived at:

http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/3.2.1/

There's an article for upgrading from 3.1.2 to 4 on the Github wiki for the Font Awesome project:

Upgrading from 3.2.1 to 4

You can also download earlier releases from the project's Releases page. The 3.2.1 release does include docs, but they must be compiled to be useful.

Generally speaking, you can always check the Wayback Machine as a last resort, which has cached versions of some of the docs from previous releases based on date:

Cached version of FontAwesome site from 3.2.1 release

edited Oct 24 '13 at 22:05

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answered Oct 24 '13 at 15:14

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Thanks, the cached version would do it. About previous release, i download it but can't figure how to compile it (i mean, which tool compiles it?) – John Owen Chile Oct 24 '13 at 15:54
I believe you need to compile them using Jekyll, a Ruby static site templating engine (http://jekyllrb.com/). Also, I just found the archived 3.2.1 docs online and updated my answer with the URL. Hope it helps! – David Perini Oct 24 '13 at 17:19
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Thanks! Not sure why FontAwesome decided to make it so difficult to get to the old icons... – cpursley Nov 07 '13 at 14:18
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what a pain in the ass. I have this stuff baked in at a low level. I love the set, but this update is painful. – Bosworth99 Nov 22 '13 at 23:44
This is no longer the case. Looks like they're pushing for money with v4. – Lucien Aug 08 '18 at 11:58

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 25 '13 at 12:45

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I just wrote a set of SED regexp to convert class name of font-awesome 4.0.0 to font-awesome.3.2.1 equivalent.

Look at this : https://gist.github.com/guli/7154067

To use it :

sed -f sed_rules.sed < font-awesome.css > font-awesome.css.fixed

Feel free to comment or fix the gist :)

answered Oct 25 '13 at 12:45

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I just fixed some issues on the gist. – guli Oct 28 '13 at 16:07
Bless your soul! I was about to sit down and do this, but you have saved me! – djsmith Nov 15 '13 at 02:02
sorry, maybe you can provide some tutorial how to use this? :) – Iggy Nov 19 '13 at 03:42

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 23 '13 at 14:36

I've written a simple Python tool to migrate HTML from font awesome 3.2 to 4.0. It may be of use to you.

You can grab it here: https://github.com/robert-b-clarke/font-awesome-3-to-4

Tested migrating a batch of Django templates from font awesome v3.2.1 to v4.0.3. Patches, fixes and tweaks are of course welcome :)

Are the Font Awesome 3.2 docs still accessible?

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