On 6/15/2014 6:33 AM, Tom S. wrote:
> On many websites, why is it whenever I turn off the font setting, 
> "Allow documents to use other fonts" (or just "Fonts" in 
> PrefBar), the buttons on the web page are replaced with little 
> rectangular placeholders? For example, this site: 
> http://www.urbandictionary.com/
> 
> It wasn't that way in times past.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 

They are NOT buttons.  They are made-up font characters (glyphs).  For
lazy Web developers, it is easier to create a glyph than a button.  When
you block downloaded fonts, you block such glyphs.

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