Issue with edx.org

[inops]

Hi all,

I've noticed a problem with the edX website in Pale Moon. I'm using 28.7.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit.

Some of the pages don't render properly, e.g. the computer science course page (see the attached PNG). I've replicated this on a fresh profile. I can't replicate the issue on Firefox 70.

Additionally (while preparing this post), I noticed I can't take a full-page screenshot of the page using the Developer toolbar (screenshot /tmp/screenshot.png --fullpage), the following is printed into the browser console (excuse the poor formatting):

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 Exception {  }  
cli.js:2056
Object { isTypedData: true, data: Object, type: "error" }  
cli.js:2056
Object { columnNumber: 0, lineNumber: 314, message: "", stack: "createScreenshotData@resource://gre…" }  
cli.js:2056

Thanks.

[Moonchild]

They place unrestricted SVG images in flex items. Flex items will scale to content; the design just needs to set specific sizes for their fontawesome elements.

[SLotman]

I came here to post about this exact same issue. Their site is STILL rendering like that :/

I suppose changing the user agent string will have no effect?

[SLotman]

Just made a small GreaseMonkey script that helps a bit:

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// ==UserScript==
// @name        edx svg fixer
// @namespace   *
// @include     http://*edx.org/*
// @version     1
// @grant       none
// @run-at document-end
// ==/UserScript==

console.info('running SVG fixer...');

var all = document.body.getElementsByTagName("svg");
for (var i=0; i<all.length; i++) {
	all[i].style.width = "15px";
}

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Learn front-end web development: HTML, CSS and JavaScript

MAYBE their webmaster/designer needs to take that course.

[Moonchild]

Or learn how to use font-based graphics, which is probably the second part of that course

[coffeebreak]

Their site is STILL rendering like that :/

Thanks for the user script.
One thing I noticed: it needs an @include for the https version of the site in order to work.

Have you tried contacting edX?
If they are notified of the problem by their students/prospective students, maybe they'll fix it.

[SLotman]

Have you tried contacting edX?
If they are notified of the problem by their students/prospective students, maybe they'll fix it.

This was first reported here on Nov/2019. I don't think they care...

And yeah, I altered the script here to also include https

[coffeebreak]

This was first reported here on Nov/2019. I don't think they care...

Yeah, I know the feeling.

But on the other hand, how will they know about this issue if it's not reported to them directly?
EdX isn't aware of Pale Moon forum reports.

[inops]

Yeah, I know the feeling.

But on the other hand, how will they know about this issue if it's not reported to them directly?
EdX isn't aware of Pale Moon forum reports.

I did contact them about it back in November, but they never replied. I don't know if anyone else wants to try...

[adesh]

As mentioned above, website is poorly coded. There is nothing (good) that browser can do for it to display properly.

Do not visit that site. Vote with your wallet.