gildas-lormeau / gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
For some reason, it has become incredibily difficult to remove elements from nybooks.com articles
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Description
Describe the bug
I know this is vague, but if I choose "annotate and save the page" for nybooks.com articles such as this one, I find that moving the cursor over various elements usually does not display the dotted line that enables selection and removing by clicking
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Go to https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/06/11/covid-19-sickness-food-supply/
- Right click on SingleFile to choose "annotate and save the page"
- Enable removing of internal or external elements
- Hover cursor over social media icons (Facebook, Twitter, etc) in the right-hand margin
Expected behavior
A dotted rectangle should surround those icons, but none appears


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Environment
- OS: Mac OS 11.4
- Browser: Brave Version 1.25.68 Chromium: 91.0.4472.77 (Official Build)
- Version: arm64
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue on the linked nybooks.com article using SingleFile's “annotate and save the page” action, then inspect the annotation and element-removal behavior around the social media icons in the right margin. Done means the dotted selection rectangle appears when hovering those elements and they can be removed as expected.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100