[SAC] staging.www.osgeo.org fails to show fonts when using an (ad)blocker

[Jody Garnett]

Markus can you report this as an issue:
https://github.com/osgeo/osgeo/issues

We should have some ongoing support with get interactive and we can get
this kind of thing resolved. Even with a quick look on stack exchange it
seems there are several solutions available.


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Jody Garnett

On 21 December 2017 at 08:20, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 7:17 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I had a quick look, there are tools to download the fonts and the
> Javascript
> > that chooses the appropriate approach for each browser.
> >
> > However the fonts are improved over time, and we have an open issue with
> > respect to kerning on windows ... which has been reported to google
> fonts.
>
> One thing to consider is that we would expose our users to permanent
> tracking when using external fonts.
> Maybe nobody cares much but maybe some yes :)
>
> The upcoming EU privacy directive (EU-DSGVO) will forbid to embed
> external fonts like this to my knowledge. Sure, the server is
> elsewhere but if not really needed we should do it well, especially
> since we are OSGeo.
>
> > Out of curiosity does uBlock cause problems with other sites? Wondering
> how
> > widespread google fonts use is ...
>
> Elsewhere I have no such issues (I was just surprised to be prompted
> with a basically blank welcome screen (images shown) when looking at
> the staging site).
>
> Markus
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