[tor-bugs] #4069 [Tor Support]: Develop a short overview and walk-through of using Tor for new users
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#4069: Develop a short overview and walk-through of using Tor for new users
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Reporter: runa | Owner: runa
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Tor Support | Version:
Keywords: | Parent:
Points: | Actualpoints:
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Comment(by runa):
We should look into shipping this manual in a format other than PDF.
Robert suggested plain text (without images) or HTML (either without
images or with images specified as 'data:' URLs).
Here's a shameless copy&paste from IRC;
"XHTML with embedded SVG might work, too, but I'm pretty sure you can't
make a usefully small SVG from the image. HTML is potentially human-
readable without a browser. PDF can contain scary JavaScript, and there's
no way for users to find out whether a PDF is safe to view. Both formats
can 'phone home', and are probably capable of sending files from the
user's filesystem to the Internet, but with an HTML file, a sufficiently
paranoid user can view it as text safely."
" A data: URL is a URL which contains the data of the resource it names.
There's a spec on the Mozilla developer website. Also, the user's webmail
service can display an HTML file more nicely than it can display a PDF
file. You can probably find examples of data: URLs in an exported Firefox
bookmarks file (export to HTML)."
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4069#comment:5>
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