1187381 - Readability problems on http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33646704 on iPads

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for iOS :: Reader View, defect)

Description

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33646704 can fail to load readability on iPads. Ocassionally it works. I think this must be related to some advertising interstitials.

Comment 1

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Looking at the debug logging:

"Candidate:", <div class=​"bbccom_advert bbccom_display_none" id=​"bbccom_leaderboard">​…​</div>​ "with score 483.6082923488763"]
"Candidate:", <div id=​"bbccom_leaderboard_1_2_3_4" class=​"bbccom_slot  bbccom_standard_slot bbccom_visible" aria-hidden=​"true">​…​</div>​ "with score 244.30212289111623"]
"Candidate:", <div id=​"site-container">​…​</div>​ "with score 78.99633292201811"]
"Candidate:", <div class=​"story-body__inner" property=​"articleBody">​…​</div>​ "with score 148.26828069861975"]
"Candidate:", <div class=​"story-body">​…​</div>​ "with score 88.84532230081409"]

i.e. the ad has a score of 483, the content has a score of 148, hence, we give you the ad :) Looking into why...

Comment 2

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

PR https://github.com/mozilla/readability/pull/239

Comment 3

[Catalin Suciu [:csuciu]]

I'm seeing this issue on multiple BBC pages on iPhone 6 (iOS 9) and iPod Touch (iOS 9).

Comment 4

[Bryan Munar (:bkmunar)]

I've been trying to reproduce this but I have not been successful. Maybe (hopefully) this is resolved due to bug 1291303. If I'm wrong, feel free to reopen the bug! :)