On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 15:31:41 +1030 Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well, to even start to debug it, you'd have to mention some particular > webpage addresses that are failing. I was going to put some examples in, but when I went looking for web pages that had the problem, I couldn't find any. :-) > Commonly, things like that are down to missing characters in fonts. > They were present in the font the webauthor used, but not yours. And > for things that did work, but now don't, it could be that the font has > changed (installs on your side, or, the author picked a different > one). > > Related to that can be the author using bizarre characters. They've > picked some unusual thing that looks like what they want, but it only > appears in some fonts. If they'd picked the normal symbol for such a > thing, it'd be more widely supported. > > Character encoding schemes can come into it, too. If they've used > UTF8, but erroneously said their page was using 8859-1 (which can be > done as a meta statement in the HTML, or the webserver's HTTP > headers), it's going to fail. Or, if you've forced your browser to > use a particular scheme, instead of obeying the website's > instructions. All of the above make sense. I used to do this, checking the preference that said to use my font and size on all pages, but I checked my preferences and that appears to have disappeared. I do block google fonts so they can't track me that way, and many web pages use all the free tracking tools of google on their pages because it is so convenient. Perhaps that is why. > And, as you said, it can be down to missing graphics. The website may > have used a graphic symbol with a text fallback. The graphic may have > disappeared from their files, they may have got the address for it > wrong on some pages, and their text fallback could be broken, too. > I'll keep an eye out, and if I run into a web page that shows the problem, I'll post it here so experts like you can possibly track down what is happening. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
