1263833 - reader mode on many samlib's pages can't open book

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Reader Mode, defect)

Description

[Tiger.711]

Attachment: Снимок экрана (11).png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:47.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/47.0
Build ID: 20160411004020

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open long book on samlib.ru (for example, this: http://samlib.ru/s/shpik_a/raznyeputi.shtml)
2. Activate reader mode by clicking the icon in the urlbar

or

go directly by this link: about:reader?url=http://samlib.ru/s/shpik_a/raznyeputi.shtml

(it makes no difference)



Actual results:

Reader mode can't load a book.


Expected results:

Book should be opened in reader mode.

Just like this: about:reader?url=http://samlib.ru/s/shpik_a/palach-1.shtml

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

This is because all the actual body text on http://samlib.ru/s/shpik_a/raznyeputi.shtml is in <dd> tags, which is semantically incorrect. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HTML/Element/dd . It should be about definitions and occur in a definition list.

Realistically I don't think readability can fix this. The markup is just very broken. If the page used <p> tags it would work fine. I don't know why the other page works, tbh, but it seems like more of a lucky accident. Marking "wontfix" because we don't have "cantfix".