[x265] x265 docs: CSS fails completely in Opera 12, HTTPS is too secure ; -)

Steve Borho steve at borho.org
Sun Aug 16 11:33:08 CEST 2015


On 08/14, Mario Rohkr?mer wrote:
> For a little while now, Opera 12 is not anymore able to render the x265
> documentation correctly.
> 
> http://x265.readthedocs.org/en/default/
> 
> The sytlesheet is completely ignored, the page displayed like pure HTML
> without any styles.
> 
> I found that the reason is the stylesheets being loaded via HTTPS from a
> server which supports only the most secure ciphers, and the outdated Opera
> 12 is unable to establish a secure connection because it misses ciphers with
> such long hashes...
> 
> https://media.readthedocs.org/css/readthedocs-doc-embed.css
> 
> On one hand, yes, Opera 12 is outdated; I just keep using it because I'm
> waiting for a similar wholesome web suite to be released (maybe Vivaldi will
> do it some day). But on the other hand ... insecure connection via HTTP (no
> forced connection upgrade to HTTPS) to load the main documents, but secure
> connection for the stylesheets, that's a little suspicious to me. :-p
> 
> { Disclaimer: Don't take this report too serious. }

Heh. FWIW the stylesheets and services are all provided and managed by
readthedocs.org. We're just freeloading customers (our only contribution
is to keep restructured text docs in our repo).

https://readthedocs.org/sustainability/#about

-- 
Steve Borho


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