Re: [Lynx-dev] Request for help identifying cause of issue rendering page elements

[Manil Chowdhury]

Hi Larry,

I shared your instructions for triaging the issue and tagged the opening github user in the issue thread (https://github.com/cds-snc/digital-canada-ca/issues/98#issuecomment-380611546). Also included is a link to the publicly viewable archive of this email thread so people can read what we've discussed.

There has been no response since they closed the issue. I don't have the bandwidth to triage so I offered to cc into the email anyone who wants to take this on.

Manil

On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 at 15:39 Larry Hynes <address@hidden> wrote:

Karen Lewellen <address@hidden> wrote:
> But it did not.  I read the page before I wrote asking to see the specific
> link  in question.  Illustrating that I had read it with my correction
> regarding a poster's statement about e-links.
>
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2018, Manil Chowdhury wrote:
>
> > Hi Karen,
> >
> > Thanks for responding.
> >
> > This page (https://digital.canada.ca/) should illustrate the issue. At the
> > bottom are "Featured Blog Posts". The issue happens with that section.

Manil -

Can you please view that link, https://digital.canada.ca/, with lynx's
TAGSOUP rendering option enabled? You should be able to toggle between
lynx's TagSoup and SortaSGML rendering with ^V (ctrl-V) (by default,
unless it has been remapped.)

I can interact with the links under "Featured Blog Posts" with TAGSOUP
enabled, I can not interact with them with it disabled. Lynx has two
different rendering methods that it can use; TAGSOUP is one of them,
and using it would appear to solve the issue that you are experiencing
(although I am not entirely sure because you haven't actually said what
the issue *is*, and I'm not having much luck wading through that github
issue page).

To recap: I understand your issue to be an inability to interact with
certain links, examples of which can be found under "Featured Blog
Posts" on the page at https://digital.canada.ca/. I have found that I
can interact with those links while using lynx with TAGSOUP enabled,
and wonder if that might work for you also.

> > On Sun, 1 Apr 2018 at 18:23 Karen Lewellen <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> Perhaps I missed it, but can you post here a link illustrating the problem?
> >> For the record, elinks, if compiled as such  supports _javascript_ making it
> >> not   a text based browser so to speak.
> >> Anyway, share the  link to the example here if you do not mind?
> >> Karen
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, Manil Chowdhury wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi there!
> >>>
> >>> I'm emailing to see if the issue detailed here (
> >>> https://github.com/cds-snc/digital-canada-ca/issues/98) is caused by a
> >>> known issue in Lynx' rendering. And if there is a recommended fix.
> >>>
> >>> This comment (
> >>>
> >> https://github.com/cds-snc/digital-canada-ca/issues/98#issuecomment-377701917
> >> )
> >>> contains details about where and how the issue is happening. We'd
> >>> appreciate some insight on the "why", if possible!
> >>>
> >>> Thank you for your time!
> >>>
> >>> Manil
> >>>
> >>
> >