GNU bug report logs - #59549
EWW ordered list display irregularity

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Nicholas Drozd <nicholasdrozd <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 18:30:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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Message #26 received at 59549 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Sebastián Monía <sebastian <at> sebasmonia.com>
Cc: jporterbugs <at> gmail.com, 59549 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, nicholasdrozd <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#59549: EWW ordered list display irregularity
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:37:39 +0200
> From: Sebastián Monía <sebastian <at> sebasmonia.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  59549 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>   nicholasdrozd <at> gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 22:20:45 -0500
> 
> Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On 11/5/2024 9:10 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >>> From: Sebastián Monía <sebastian <at> sebasmonia.com>
> >>> Cc: 59549 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >>> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 09:38:28 -0500
> >>>
> >>> If we think it is OK to render the empty items, then we could close this
> >>> bug instead of merging. Either way, one less item in the TODO list ;)
> >> Thanks.
> >> I'm not enough of an HTML expert to be sure that this is the right
> >> fix
> >> in general, sorry.  I hope someone else will be able to tell.
> >
> > I think the current behavior with the empty list item is correct,
> > actually. Other browsers don't show the list item (and renumber the
> > list as appropriate) because the CSS rule for ".mw-empty-elt" has
> > "display: none". EWW/SHR don't parse CSS[1], and so we show the empty
> > item.
> >
> > You can see the same "problem" in Firefox if you load
> > <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/locus#Noun> and go to View -> Page
> > Style -> No Style. Since that's roughly what EWW/SHR is doing, I think
> > we're consistent with other browsers here.
> >
> > [1] Well, they can parse some limited inline CSS using the "style"
> > attribute, but that doesn't apply here since the styling comes from a
> > CSS class.
> 
> Then we can close this report? Since it isn't really a bug, but "working
> as intended".

Yes, I think so.




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