What is the matter with you, kid?

[sovay]

And now for something completely different. As of this evening, LJ appears to have ceased to display icons on either my entries or my friendlist. Not mine, not anybody else's, not in comments unless they're in the user's own style. I did a complete refresh on Firefox in case that was the problem and it wasn't. Has anyone (who is still using LJ) experienced this problem? If so, do you have any suggestions? In an ideal world, by morning this issue will have fixed itself and I can delete this post. We do not live in an ideal world. I'd love advice. Icons are important. This one should have a very cranky-looking Psholtii at the top of it.

[edit] Since it's started to come up in comments, I run Firefox 46.0.1 on Mac OS 10.6.8. The latter of these has not changed in years. (Please do not encourage me to solve any problems by updating my operating system; I have several technical reasons for holding on to this version.) Looking at Firefox's release history, I can't see that it's done anything in the last twenty-four hours. I am therefore assuming that the sudden non-display of my icons is a problem with LJ, but would appreciate correction if I have the wrong end of the hydra here. In the meantime, my journal continues to look very naked to me.

I hope I don't have to change the style. I have had Refried Paper since I started this journal in 2004 and I'm used to it.

[edit edit] Experimentally reverting to Firefox 45.0.2 on another computer with the same operating system, my icons become visible. Updating to Firefox 46.0.1, my icons disappear. I don't understand why this issue did not make itself obvious on April 26, 2016 according to the online release history, but there it is. I can see in the HTML for the page that the icons are present, just not displaying. So: toxic Firefox/LJ interaction?

[edit edit edit] It looks like an HTML compliance issue with LiveJournal. It's just showing up now in Firefox. This is almost certainly out of my control.

Comments

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

I sincerely appreciate the help!

I had to revert back to the old site scheme to make that option SHOW UP, but I found it.

Sadly, Sovay, I could not /find/ Refried Paper. I think they've eliminated all access to the original style themes. Or I'm just incompetent with LJ. Either is likely.

[sovay]

Sadly, Sovay, I could not /find/ Refried Paper. I think they've eliminated all access to the original style themes. Or I'm just incompetent with LJ. Either is likely.

I appreciate the effort! When I look at my journal style, it says that I'm still using Refried Paper, for whatever that's worth.

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

It's not just you; viewing all themes doesn't include Refried anything. That is irritating--I was checking to see whether we could edit the style a bit to fix the coding now-error.

[sovay]

It's not just you; viewing all themes doesn't include Refried anything.

So my style is deprecated, therefore it is highly unlikely that anyone at LJ is going to fix the HTML errors in order to make it compliant with the latest browsers, i.e., I need to find a new style. Aaaaaaargh.

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

I am sorry. Does LJ still permit custom themes? I wonder whether this one could be mocked up and recreated.

ETA My Firefox version is bleeding-edge current "developer edition" (so bloody that the most recent update slowed it down considerably with a new bug, but I bet it'll be fixed soon); my Chrome, which is vanilla but up to date, and MS Edge also do not show the icons. I've made a screen shot in IE11 and saved a "full" HTML version of this page in Firefox. Maybe the CSS and screen shot will be useful to someone? (I am full up on side projects and haven't checked the question of custom themes, but saving a few files tonight costs almost nothing.)

[sovay]

Does LJ still permit custom themes? I wonder whether this one could be mocked up and recreated.

I don't know! I took down the technical specs—colors, fonts, text, links—earlier tonight just in case.

My Firefox version is bleeding-edge current "developer edition" (so bloody that the most recent update slowed it down considerably with a new bug, but I bet it'll be fixed soon); my Chrome, which is vanilla but up to date, and MS Edge also do not show the icons.

Yeah. Thank you for checking; I am not surprised. Unless LJ does some kind of massive overhaul, I expect the compliance gap will only widen. I do not think HTML 4.01 Transitional cuts any ice with current standards.

Maybe the CSS and screen shot will be useful to someone? (I am full up on side projects and haven't checked the question of custom themes, but saving a few files tonight costs almost nothing.)

I appreciate it.