[pydotorg-www] Fwd: JavaScript problem

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 28.02.2013 17:57, Michael Foord wrote:
> We have at least one user who is using the LibreJS extension that blocks javascript not known to be "free" (in the ideological sense). Parts of python.org break when you do this. I promised I would forward this feedback to the web team. 
> 
> It looks like the google calendars break (no surprise) and also the sphinx search for the python documentation (really a sphinx issue instead of a python.org web team issue).

Google calendars show some HTML when JS is no working. It's not
pretty, though.

I'd say we close this as "won't fix" :-)

> Michael Foord
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: LRN <lrn1986 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: JavaScript problem
>> Date: 28 February 2013 16:15:11 GMT
>> To: Michael Foord <michael at python.org>
>> Cc: webmaster at python.org
>>
> On 28.02.2013 20:02, Michael Foord wrote:
>>>> We use google calendars for the release schedule and other
>>>> calendars, which is *probably* the Javascript you're talking about
> Yes, it could be.
> 
>>>> - although your report is not sufficient to actually diagnose any
>>>> particular problem.
> Yes, LibreJS is not very informative about its decisions about
> JavaScript code it sees. Probably because the algorithm behind these
> decisions is not trivial. I think there is some info on this in
> LibreJS readme file, but that is the extent of my knowledge
> 
>>>> What do you mean by "broken"?
> These features do not work. The calendar-related feature on python.org
> says that JavaScript is disabled, while search feature doesn't show
> up, without any explanations from docs.python.org
> 
>>>> As far as I can tell the features you describe (calendars and
>>>> search) all work fine.
> Apparently, they rely non-free JS code, which is blocked by LibreJS,
> which is why they do not work.
> 
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