1150265 - Readability drops images from NASA article

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Reader Mode, defect, P3)

Description

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/msl/nasas-curiosity-eyes-prominent-mineral-veins-on-mars/

There are two images at the top of the page -- a large header and a smaller thumbnail. I'd have hoped the large image would show up in reader view.

Instead I either get nothing or "[image-36][image-51]" at the top of the article.

Weirdly, if nothing shows up, clicking reload will redraw the page with the "[image-36][image-51]" added. What?!

Comment 1

[:Margaret Leibovic]

(In reply to Justin Dolske [:Dolske] from comment #0)
> http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/msl/nasas-curiosity-eyes-prominent-mineral-veins-on-
> mars/
> 
> There are two images at the top of the page -- a large header and a smaller
> thumbnail. I'd have hoped the large image would show up in reader view.
> 
> Instead I either get nothing or "[image-36][image-51]" at the top of the
> article.

This sounds like an issue with Readability.js.

> Weirdly, if nothing shows up, clicking reload will redraw the page with the
> "[image-36][image-51]" added. What?!

I bet clicking reload will fetch the article with an XHR, instead of from the original document, which would explain the inconsistency. For example, this will happen if you load about:reader?url=http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/msl/nasas-curiosity-eyes-prominent-mineral-veins-on-mars/ directly.

However, that's definitely weird and not desirable.