External images found in css for both core and simplified theme.
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reconbot
Joined: 2003-03-27
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Posted: Mon, 2008-05-05 15:22
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I was created a mirror of my site for offline viewing using httrack and I noticed it created directories for domains that were not my own. I tracked it down to two css files that refer to yahoo images and I assume only get used in javascript (from what I can figure by goggling around it's part of yahoo's javascript framework they let people freely use). Well.. that's disturbing. If anyone I guess we can trust yahoo, but shouldn't we not have any external dependencies? Especially for something as trivial as an image? They can and probably do track it's usage. Quote:
html/modules/core/data/gallery.css: background-image: url(https://a248.e.akamai.net/sec.yimg.com/i/nt/ic/ut/alt3/close12_1.gif); Those files also have references to non https links to the same image. Also (and probably obviously) I'm not saying we should use our own js framework, but I think we should see if we can tame yahoo's (I don't know the license or it's options.) or use something else entirely.
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