On IE8, font disapear when refresh

EDIT : Just see that there is an other bug about display on IE (#929) but I'm not sure it's the same 'cause the tweak seems to be on the source code..

Hello,

Sorry but I have to report a bug on IE 8 (argh). The users of my application are not experimented internet guys and could still use XP/IE 8 ..

So, I saw that when I simple refresh my app, fonts disapear randomly. I checked on fontAwesome website and it's the same, with a strange behaviour on hover. When I hard refresh (CRTL+R) or clear the cache, fonts come back. I let you see my different screenshots.

[tagliala]

Hi, we never experienced this issue with IE8. Did you check other machines? Can you please check FA 3.1.1 and let me know if everything is fine?

[tagliala]

closing, no feedback here

[andparsons]

I found I also had this problem with IE8 on XP with 3.1.1.
When defining the icons via unicode () rather than by class, the problem didn't occur.

[ecowden]

We can also confirm that this is an issue.

Here's a screen shot of the Font Awesome page as of Jun 14th, 2013, v3.2.0:

[tagliala]

reopening but since it's random, it's hard to reproduce by me

Sorry I had no time to answer before. We reproduce on every VM XP created on our machines (VM found here http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools)

[tagliala]

I will take another look. Anyway I'm also using a virtual machine

[tagliala]

confirm. Sometimes right click is enough to get icons back.

Are you able to reproduce it here: http://tagliala.github.io/vectoriconsroundup/

If yes, please check that other webicons are not working.

[tagliala]

Tried 20-25 times without any success. I suspect some javascript stuff (my roundup is not using jquery and there is a javascript error on IE8). Let me up to date

I reproduced the first time on http://tagliala.github.io/vectoriconsroundup/, only in the ELS column. Then all icons were alright when I refreshed (even when I deleted the cache files !). I tried ~10 times.

Hope it helps.

[ecowden]

The icons on http://tagliala.github.io/vectoriconsroundup/ don't show up for me at all. Looks like the JavaScript errors probably have something to do with it, though.

[tagliala]

I could setup for sure a page without javascript

Anyway, since ELS and Glyphicons have nothing to do with FontAwesome, can we say that this is a browser bug?

Any IE8 guru here?

[tagliala]

any news about this one?