Bug#753800: tracker.debian.org: please give the details link some content
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 6:19 AM, Francesco Poli wrote:
> since this change went online, I have experienced an awkward behavior
> with Iceweasel: if I visit a tracker page with the JavaScript
> interpreter disabled, I see many rectangles with unicode exadecimal
> digits in them (as if the browser were trying to display characters
> without finding an appropriate gliph among the installed fonts).
> Please see the attached "tracker_on_iceweasel_no_js.png" screenshot.
This is because the icons are actually characters in the Unicode
Private Use Area of the Octicons font, which is loaded over http. I
guess you have disabled this to decrease your browser's attack
surface.
> As soon as I enable the JavaScript interpreter for tracker.debian.org
> (by using the NoScript Iceweasel extension), I see the correct symbols.
> Please see the attached "tracker_on_iceweasel_with_js.png" screenshot.
I expect the JS enables a fall-back for people who disabled web fonts.
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bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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