WebPositive doesn't render icons on some sites

[un_spacyar]

Hi. On some sites, WebPositive does not render the icons properly. Just in case, I am using Haiku nighlty 32 bit (56475), and have the FontAwesome installed.

You can test loading this site: ​https://wallhaven.cc

On Otter or Dooble browser, the icons loads properly. But not on WebPositive. In easy to check this seeing the attachments :-)

[un_spacyar]

​https://wallheaven.cc

[nephele]

Could you please add a rendering of another browser? In Safari iOS I don't see any icons.

The char you see looks like the missing glyph char, in which case you might try installing noto emoji, if that fixes an issue this would be a duplicate issue about webfonts.

[nephele]

Oh, sorry, I somehow missed the line with the other browser picture. :)

[nephele]

(for reference: https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/13361)

[un_spacyar]

Hi! Thanks for the information. I tried installing the 'noto emoji' and 'noto emoji color' packages, but the issue persists. Thanks for the link to the ticket.

[nephele]

noto color emoji does not dp anything for haiku apps (iirc only qt supports this)

the noto emoji package might be a bit outdatad, if you feel adventerous you can try installing an updated versopn in non-packaged/data/ttfonts/ (iirc, foldername should match the one in /system) by downloading it directly from noto.

alternatively the glyphs could be in noto symbols or noto symbols 2, or maybe in none of these fonts at all :D

[madmax]

The Noto family won't do anything in this case, not even through substitution. Those are glyphs in the private area of Font Awesome 5 Pro.

As said in #13361, the problem is lack of support for downloading and using a font. There's some work for that in ​https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/4790, and then we also have to update webkit to use it.

Meanwhile, the workaround is to install the required fonts. In this case, Font Awesome 5 Pro, which requires a license. The Font Awesome 5 Free available in Haiku Depot won't do.