From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from out.smtp-auth.no-ip.com (smtp-auth.no-ip.com [8.23.224.60]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0343A779C0 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2019 21:57:00 -0700 (PDT) X-No-IP: carhart.net@noip-smtp X-Report-Spam-To: abuse@no-ip.com Received: from carhart.net (unknown [99.57.137.251]) (Authenticated sender: carhart.net@noip-smtp) by smtp-auth.no-ip.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id A488037FB1A for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2019 21:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kevin@localhost) by carhart.net (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id x584uw24013012 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2019 21:56:59 -0700 Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 21:56:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Carhart To: edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com Subject: Re: [edbrowse-dev] Good Morning America fun In-Reply-To: <20190507171501.eklhad@comcast.net> Message-ID: References: <20190507171501.eklhad@comcast.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) X-BeenThere: edbrowse-dev@edbrowse.org List-Id: Edbrowse Development List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed You're on fire, that's great! matchMedia has turned up here and there for me recently so it should help with many sites. On Fri, 7 Jun 2019, Karl Dahlke wrote: > I've always said, newspaper and tv websites are the worst. > They're just disseminating information, basically readonly, they don't have to be complicated, but they are! > Almost all of them I turn js off, browse, jump to h1, and there's the story. > Well a few don't work like that, like nasa.gov, and I've already talked about that one at length. > Yesterday I wanted to read a story that somebody linked to, > > https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/real-life-iron-man-robert-downey-jr-launches-63499797 > > With js off, nothing! > With js on, just one line. > Time for debugging. > I fixed one thing after another after another after another, > see the various commits in the last 24 hours, > and if you pull all those then bring up the site, > 402 lines, including the story, and links to various other stories. > So it works! > > The story is fluff, cause it's GMA and not a real science outlet, but oh well. > > The point is, this kind of debugging was flat out impossible without the snapshot() feature > that lets me make a (mostly) local copy of the website. > Then I put in alerts and breakpoints and so on. > The local copy isn't true in every way. > When I bring it up I only get 169 of the 402 lines, not sure why, > some xhr stuff pulls in the story and has to run off the real website, but stil, still, > all the debugging I could do, and it's kinda fun. > > Brousing this site is really slow, as are some others, > and I should probably stop debugging and look at performance, cause you don't really want to wait 2 minutes for this news story. > > > Karl Dahlke >