linuxquestions.org unusable

[Jude DaShiell]

linuxquestions.org is making improvements.  That continue button got 
replaced by a hard link according to the webmaster.  The test account 
the webmaster used had opened threads before originally but when he 
created a new account and tried to open a first thread using lynx he was 
able to confirm the difficulties I had had.  The username and password 
fields are strange on linuxquestions.org but at least lynx can get close 
enough to them to enter something.  Both leave a null character in their 
beginnings after username and password have been filled in and when that 
happens login fails.  The password field shows underline characters as 
you'd expect when it's blank.  The username field is one space after the 
: character in username: until you hit control-u in lynx and then the 
edit field with underscore characters appears.  Next time I try logging 
into linuxquestions.org to try out that hard link on first thread, I'm 
going to try a series of backspace characters in the username: field to 
see if that'll get my username in correctly.

On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> Hi Jude,
> 
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 14:27:45 -0500 (EST)
> Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at shellworld.net> wrote:
> 
> > For us lynx users it's not possible to start new threads on that site 
> > since the continue button for the first message was made using the dark 
> > force, Javascript.
> 
> Well, there are also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_%28web_browser%29 and
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELinks which do support JS.
> 
> > I made an account on that site several years ago and 
> > went back to start a thread in hopes of getting some slackware support and 
> > found it impossible.  I also found out, neither safari nor google chrome 
> > can be used to get logged into that site.  Lynx has difficulty but can do 
> > it sometimes but safari and chrome cannot.
> 
> I was able to log in into http://www.linuxquestions.org/ using
> chromium-browser-39.0.2171.65-3.mga5 on Mageia Linux x86-64 5 , but I'm not
> sight impaired. Which operating system are you using to run Safari and Google
> Chrome on? 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Shlomi Fish
> 
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