Great detective work Ralph, good job. Sent from my iPhone
On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 at 11:26, Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > I think I've worked out what's happening with the rendering of the > website on Clive's laptop. Perhaps it will help someone spot why. > > The large buttons have text appearing over the top of them. What should > be a button with > > Change > Password > > in it has ‘key_circle’ overlaid. This is intended to be a single > character in a ‘symbol’ font chosen by the website. > > It becomes a single character through a bodge exploiting ligatures > within fonts. Intended to render words like ‘piffle’ as ‘piffle’, the > feature is abused by defining a ligature for the run of characters > ‘key_circle’. This causes the browser to search for ‘key_circle’ > through all the text using the font and replace it with the ligature. > In this case, it will be a single character that will presumably look > like a key in a circle. This being a suitable icon for the ‘Change > Password’ button. > > The font isn't being used. This is the underlying problem. > ‘key_circle’ isn't found in the ligature table of the fallback font and > so remains as ten characters. > > Why isn't the font loading on Clive's laptop giving he has disabled all > add ons? Ideas please. > > Clive, in Firefox's settings, can you check General → Fonts → > Advanced... → ‘Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your > selections above’ is ticked. > > -- > Cheers, Ralph. > > -- > Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2023-12-05 20:00 > Check to whom you are replying > Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk > New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk > -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2023-12-05 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
