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. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
