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EWW ordered list display irregularity

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From: Sebastián Monía <sebastian <at> sebasmonia.com>
To: Nicholas Drozd <nicholasdrozd <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 59549 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59549: EWW ordered list display irregularity
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:07:32 -0400

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Hi everyone,


>  Here is the Wiktionary definition of the word "locus":
>  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/locus#Noun When I open that page in
>  EWW, I see five definition entries. But the second entry is blank.

I was able to reproduce.

>  So EWW is not failing to display anything; instead, it is inserting
>  something extra. That extra something comes from this piece of HTML:
>
>    <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li>

I wouldn't say for sure EWW is in the wrong here. Apparently inserting
empty li elements for styling purposed is a somewhat common practice.
Couldn't confirm how "correct" it is, but it is accepted.
(sidenote, stuff like this makes be glad I haven't worked in web stuff
in many many years)

>  I don't know why that's in there or how Firefox knows not to display
>  it. It would be cool if EWW also knew not to display it.

The attached patch does exactly that: skip any li elements that don't
have content.

[0001-shr-don-t-render-empty-li-tags-bug-59549.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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I tested with the Wiktionary page and a few other offline tests and it
worked as intended.

Regards,
Seb

-- 
Sebastián Monía
https://site.sebasmonia.com/

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