[Techtalk] Setting browser fonts makes buttons disappear

[Carla Schroder]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2015 10:54:57 -0700
Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:

> From: Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com>
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Setting browser fonts makes buttons disappear
> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 10:54:57 -0700
> Sender: techtalk-bounces at linuxchix.org
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)
> 
> Carla Schroder writes:
> > 
> > O Great Techtalkers, WTF is up with buttons that disappear when you
> > don't check 'allow pages to choose their own fonts' in Firefox? Two
> > notorious examples are Twitter and the Wordpress dashboard. It's
> > really fun trying to work in Wordpress with all those weird little
> > Chinese-looking glyphs instead of buttons. I want MY fonts dammit,  
> 
> I use that setting too. I don't think I've seen buttons disappear --
> where on Twitter do you see this? If you give a specific example I
> might be able to figure out what's up.

The attached screenshot is an example of what I see on Twitter. I swear
Web designers are all on drugs.
 

Carla



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