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    • ncdave4life
      ncdave4life last edited by leocg

      I encountered a strange problem today.

      Here's a plain text file:

      https://sealevel.info/BEST_vs_UAH_2020-06-14h_digitization_notes.txt

      Here's the WayBack Machine's copy:

      http://web.archive.org/web/20200616135432/https://sealevel.info/BEST_vs_UAH_2020-06-14h_digitization_notes.txt

      When I view that archived copy in Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave, PaleMoon or Vivaldi, it looks fine. But in Opera (Version:78.0.4093.231 or 79.0.4143.22 stable 64-bit on Windows 10) it only shows about ten lines of the file, in a little borderless window. Scrolling is possible with arrow keys, and there's a scrollbar near the right-edge of the window (which I didn't notice at first).

      I don't know whether this is a bug, or merely a six-legged feechur, but I don't like it.

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer @ncdave4life last edited by

        @ncdave4life No difference between Opera and Chrome here.

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        • ncdave4life
          ncdave4life @leocg last edited by

          I did some more checks, and discovered that it happens only when javascript is disabled. (I have the "Enable Javascript" extension installed in Opera.) Here are four screenshots.

          First, here's a screenshot showing the quirk:
          https://sealevel.info/Opera_Archive_dot_org_quirk_demo1_javascript-disabled.png
          screenshot showing the quirk

          When javascript is enabled, the quirk does not happen:
          https://sealevel.info/Opera_Archive_dot_org_quirk_demo2_javascript-enabled.png

          Archive.is does not exhibit the quirk:
          https://sealevel.info/Opera_Archive_dot_org_quirk_demo4_archive_dot_is.png

          Viewing the original text file in Opera (not the copy from archive.org) also shows no quirk:
          https://sealevel.info/Opera_Archive_dot_org_quirk_demo3_no_Archive_dot_org.png

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          • ncdave4life
            ncdave4life @ncdave4life last edited by ncdave4life

            Well, it's not specific to Opera. I download the web page and stripped out all the javascript, and then it happened in every web browser. So it's an archive dot org quirk, not an Opera quirk:

            https://sealevel.info/Archive_dot_org_quirk_avascript-disabled2.html

            Sorry for the false alarm!

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