Re: [Lynx-dev] AO3

[Thorsten Glaser]

Karen Lewellen dixit:

> That is funny, I log in using lynx several times a day, with my cookie saved
> without javascript.

Hm. Are you outside of the EU, by chance?

Perhaps they’re doing geographical detection via IP address,
and insisting on the JS cookie only for Europeans?

> In fact the site states at the top  that it will work without javascript in
> place.

It does state that, but in my experience, not everything
works, or works well, or even consistently (Kudos, for
example, work half of the time giving a page reload, half
of the time give an internal server error (but are still
recorded and if you just go back to the previous page you
can continue from there), and I managed to generate dupli‐
cates once even).

> I have a membership, but given  how long I read stories there  without one, I
> suspect  a personal configuration  factor.

Hm no idea, I’ve been a member for ages as well.

> You have of course requested help from support?

Sure. They told me they lack people who know lynx, and
their developers have no time to spend extra, but they
will try to keep things working without JS as long as
it’s no extra effort. No reply to my suggestion that
the devs occasionally test it with lynx themselves.

bye,
//mirabilos
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