Re: [Gimp-developer] SGO to WGO Transition

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 11/23/2015 12:06 PM, Pat David wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 3:18 PM Elle Stone

>     All pages: The site requires javascript enabled to display the icons at
>     the bottom of the page. Otherwise, except for the GIMP icon, the icons
>     are just place-holders.
>            Some people consider scripts to be a security risk. Is there
>     a way
>     to make the icons at the bottom of the page display without requiring
>     the user to enable scripts?
>
>
> The site does NOT requite JS to show the icons in the footer.  You are
> likely using an extension to block scripts in your browser (noscript?).
> If this is the case, you'll need to examine your settings to understand
> what is happening, which is that you're actually blocking the fonts
> (which those icons are packaged as).
>
> So yes, you can easily view the icons in the footer without scripts
> running (try turning off just javascript and you'll see).

Javascript and "objects":

Hmm, you might be right about "just disabling javascript" and leaving 
everything else allowed. However, I don't just block javascript when I 
browse the web. Other stuff, including "objects", which includes the 
downloaded fonts, is also blocked.

I suspect most people running noscript/etc block "objects" as well as 
scripts.

On older/slower/low-ram computers, blocking "stuff" is not just a 
security issue - it's also just about necessary to be able to browse the 
internet at all.

Nice fonts are nice to see. But downloading fonts and such from another 
location to the user's computer does add to the weight and download 
speed of a page, and as "objects" they are going to be perceived as "not 
good" by security-conscious people.


Checking other browsers that aren't using Noscript/etc:

I checked using some other browsers and still don't see the icons.

Here's a screenshot of what I see in four different browsers - top to 
bottom the browsers are Rekonq, Konqueror, Opera, and Firefox:

http://ninedegreesbelow.com/bug-reports/gimp-site/rekonq-konqueror-opera-firefox-screenshot.jpg

I don't use Rekonq, Konqueror, or Opera except for testing to see how 
websites render. So I'm not sure what settings they are using.

I did check the Rekonq browser preferences. Rekonq was set up to allow 
scripting and was probably more or less "default as set up by KDE". So I 
don't know why the icons and images aren't showing up - the line 
drawing, and the DTP images showed up, but not the image at the top or 
the nice images for the photo editing/painting/etc. Konqueror also 
failed to load some of the images.

As an aside, on my computer the page loading speed is very slow today, 
even considering my "not fast" internet connection. For example, just 
now it took 29 seconds to completely load the GIMP "about" page. 
Sometimes pages actually timed out with Rekonq and Konquerer. As 
reference, other websites don't seem to be taking any longer than normal.

Best,
Elle