[tor-bugs] #4797 [Tor Browser]: Find some font snobs to test font-limiting patches (was: Find some font snobs to test font-limiting patch)

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#4797: Find some font snobs to test font-limiting patches
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 Reporter:  mikeperry    |          Owner:  mikeperry                    
     Type:  task         |         Status:  new                          
 Priority:  major        |      Milestone:  TorBrowserBundle 2.3.x-stable
Component:  Tor Browser  |        Version:                               
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Changes (by mikeperry):

  * priority:  normal => major
  * milestone:  => TorBrowserBundle 2.3.x-stable


Comment:

 Camilo has created an alternate version of font limiting that gives us a
 pref to restrict the font loading to the six generic fonts only
 (http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html#generic-font-families).

 He's still working on the patch to ensure it does not block WebFonts, but
 I've attached an early draft.

 Supposedly the following websites look off:

 http://www.travelocity.com/ -> looks weird
 http://www.expedia.com/ -> lower part of the page misrendered
 http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/datatable/ -> function names are not
 rendered in monospace
 http://i-ville.net/fonts.html -> misrendered due to site braindamage
 http://gmoc-db.grnoc.iu.edu/

 Here are some multi-lingual sites that looked ok (covering arabic, thai,
 jewish, japanese,chinese,korean and hindi):

 aljazeera,
 http://thai.tourismthailand.org/home/search/search-
 result/index.php?id=185&cat_id=5&event_id=2969&L=2
 http://www.haaretz.co.il/
 http://www3.nhk.or.jp/
 http://www.xinhuanet.com/
 http://www.donga.com/
 http://in.jagran.yahoo.com/

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