GNU bug report logs - #14814
24.3.50; eww: Unable to see Emacswiki's Captcha

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14814 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14814: 24.3.50; eww: Unable to see Emacswiki's Captcha
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 17:08:39 +0200

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com> writes:

> See the attached screenshot.  Why am I not seeing the captcha offered by
> Emacswiki?

eww doesn't support iframes, and the captcha is an iframe.

eww could add support for iframes, but it wouldn't really help much
here, because I think recaptcha relies on JavaScript to communicate the
results of the captcha to the originating page.  Doesn't it?  Or does it
work without JS, too?

> Bonus points if the Textarea could be edited in the major-mode specific
> to markup used by the Wiki engine - Creole, Usemod, Oddmuse, Org,
> Markdown whatever.

That might be nice.

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