[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #64392: Missing icons in top admin-bar and visual editor for older browsers (firefox 115)

[WordPress Trac]

#64392: Missing icons in top admin-bar and visual editor for older browsers
(firefox 115)
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 Reporter:  timholz            |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)       |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Toolbar            |     Version:  6.9
 Severity:  normal             |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  close 2nd-opinion  |     Focuses:  ui
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Changes (by sabernhardt):

 * keywords:   => close 2nd-opinion


Comment:

 Both [60885] and [60806] employed the newer syntax to set empty
 alternative text for icons in the admin toolbar (and other places such as
 the Classic Editor).

 As @jorbin said in comment:12:ticket:64350 regarding checkboxes,

 > There is a clear workaround to this issue: Use a browser that WordPress
 supports.
 >
 > Based on this clearly falling outside of the current browser support
 policy and this ticket not being the best place to decide a change to that
 policy, I think this should be closed as `maybelater` with the maybe being
 based on the browser support policy changing at some point in the future.

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 The partial revert in [61293] was for the `dashicons` stylesheet itself,
 because it could be enqueued on the front end. The admin toolbar also
 appears on the front end for logged-in users, though that is still within
 the context of WordPress administration and accessing user profiles.

 On the other hand, the lack of icons in old browsers can make the About WP
 menu and Search box very difficult to discover on larger screens, and the
 toolbar //requires// icons at sizes narrower than 782 pixels (or zoom
 equivalent).

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64392#comment:3>
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