Merge pull request #2872 from j-f1/remove-wp-smiley

Remove wp-smiley images

Shared/Article Rendering/main.js

@@ -154,6 +154,13 @@ function styleLocalFootnotes() {
 	}
 }
 
+// convert <img alt="📰" src="[...]" class="wp-smiley"> to a text node containing 📰
+function removeWpSmiley() {
+	for (const img of document.querySelectorAll("img.wp-smiley[alt]")) {
+		 img.parentNode.replaceChild(document.createTextNode(img.alt), img);
+	}
+}
+
 function processPage() {
 	wrapFrames();
 	wrapTables();
@@ -163,5 +170,6 @@ function processPage() {
 	convertImgSrc();
 	flattenPreElements();
 	styleLocalFootnotes();
+	removeWpSmiley()
 	postRenderProcessing();
 }

Shared/Article Rendering/shared.css

@@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ blockquote {
 	border-top: 1px solid var(--header-table-border-color);
 }
 
+/* see removeWpSmiley; this rule is kept in case a wp-smiley is encountered without alt text */
 .wp-smiley {
    height: 1em;
    max-height: 1em;