Opened 8 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#27190 closed Cleanup/optimization (wontfix)

Internet explorer 9 fails to load Roboto-Regular.woff font

Reported by: eugene kim Owned by: nobody
Component: contrib.admin Version: 1.10
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Django admin uses Roboto fonts.
and it fails to load in IE9.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16710972/css-font-face-not-working-in-ie9

django/contrib/admin/static/admin/css/fonts.css has the following lines

 @font-face {
     font-family: 'Roboto';
     src: url('../fonts/Roboto-Regular-webfont.woff');
     font-weight: 400;
     font-style: normal;
 }

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Tim Graham, 8 years ago

Component: Uncategorizedcontrib.admin
Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed
Type: UncategorizedCleanup/optimization

I don't think there's much value in fixing this since a fix wouldn't ship until Django 1.11 in April 2017. According to Microsoft Support Lifecycle, support for Windows Vista (the only desktop version to support IE9) ends in April 11, 2017.

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