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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

With due respect, it sounds to me like you're saying "if I turn off 
pieces that make it look good, it doesn't look good anymore". Which, 
well, yeah.


On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 05:29:58PM +0200, "André S." wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> the new website looks good.
> However a (minor?) issue: I checked today and have some display issues when
> viewing the site in Firefox. The symbols on the buttons e.g. for Download
> are not displayed correctly. See attached screenshot. All scripts for the
> site are allowed (via NoScript <https://noscript.net/>). But NoScript blocks
> some *content *(fonts) because it resides on a foreign server
> (bootstrapcdn.com).
> 
> I have no idea how to prevent this (maybe put the fonts on the KiCad
> server), but it makes the site look broken for people using the NoScript
> extension/requires additional "work" to allow not only the scripts but also
> the external content.
> 
> System: Windows 7 Home Premium
> Firefox: 40.03
> 
> When viewing in Google Chrome or Internet Explorer 11 the fonts look OK. I
> think because I have no script-blocker when using them.
> My main browser is Firefox, mainly because of NoScript ...
> 
> Best regards,
>   André
> 
> Am 26.08.2015 um 23:31 schrieb Nick Østergaard:
> >Hello KiCad developers
> >
> >We are happy to announce a new website for KiCad, this instead of the
> >old website system which was using Confluence, that has proved very
> >unstable.
> >
> >The goal of this new website is to be the go to place for official
> >KiCad information and should support some way of having regular KiCad
> >users contribute to the site, let that be fixing typing mistakes or
> >just improving the content in what ever way seems fit.
> >
> >This time around we have taken a new approach, instead of using the
> >monster of confluence, we have choosen Hugo, a static site generator.
> >This should make sure that the requirements for the hosting server is
> >quite low, and should help increasing the availability of the site.
> >Although KiCad itself does not run on mobile devices (think
> >smartphones and the like) the website should be way more appealing on
> >theese platforms too.
> >
> >I would like to thank especially Mark Roszko for helping me out with
> >actually developing the site and have done a quite substantial amount
> >of work in this regard. There are other people which has contributed
> >with different pieces of the site too, I will also thank them and I
> >will list their github usernames here for reference. The list is
> >listed approximately with the amount of changes the person has
> >contribuated with. Largest ammount of work contributed on top.
> >
> >Thor-Arne
> >Caerbannog
> >tfboy
> >cpavlina
> >reportingsjr
> >adamwolf
> >mangelajo
> >carycode
> >marcos-paltatech
> >
> >The site still needs some fixes here and there, and new people are
> >still contributing, but I choose to ask Ajo to enable it now, since it
> >is mostly done and the confluence site has had something in the order
> >of 95% downtime. A site in progress is way better than a site down.
> >
> >Contributions are made on https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-website/
> >
> >I also thank various people for their general feedback, that I have
> >received and tried to take into account when appropiate.
> >
> >Regards
> >Nick Østergaard
> >
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