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Re: Announcing The New Website

 

I had the same problem with Privacy Badger. Disabling the extension
fixed the issue.

We could serve the font ourselves, we don't care much to get font updates.


On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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