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x/playground: pressing run or share on lynx gives a "bad html" error #52585

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mindfarm opened this issue Apr 27, 2022 · 4 comments
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x/playground: pressing run or share on lynx gives a "bad html" error #52585

mindfarm opened this issue Apr 27, 2022 · 4 comments
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@mindfarm
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This was reported and confirmed on IRC

13:46 < Andrew> While visiting and putting code (playing)
                with play.golang.org, lynx says bad html:
                no form action defined, while pressing run
                or share
13:53 < b0nn> Yeah - I get it too; you can report it as an
              issue on the go github page I think
13:57 < Andrew> problem is (1) submitting issues/prs on
                github requires nonfree javascript and a
                modern web browser and (2) I don
13:57 < Andrew> 't have one...

The problem is that accessing the play.golang.org website using lynx (command line browser) produces warnings and errors
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My vision is that whoever nowadays uses lynx is hardcore enough to fix the code (or implement new) by them own.

Sorry, but for developers it's a waste of time - this browser is used by 0.5% of population. Oh wait, article was written in 1997.

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mvdan commented Apr 27, 2022

If the browser is right that the HTML is incorrect, I think it's fair to try to fix bugs like that when they are reported. I don't expect the developers to test on every browser under the sun continuously, but if valid bugs are reported, I don't see why they can't be fixed if someone sends a patch.

@mvdan mvdan changed the title Website x/playground: pressing run or share on lynx gives a "bad html" error Apr 27, 2022
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The playground API accepts json, not a html form. I also don't see how the run results would be streamed to a browser not running js without significant rework of both front and backend.

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I've tried with a number of other command line browsers, but wasn't able to get the Run button to activate
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I think it's right to close this as javascript does indeed seem to be the stumbling block (I tried to build spidermonkey for elinks so that I could get javascript running in a CLI browser, but to no avail [Run-time dependency tre found: NO] and it's not that important to me)

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