mozilla / mozilla/readability

Reader View Fails on https://spectrum.ieee.org/magnetophon-laugh-track

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Description

Visited https://spectrum.ieee.org/magnetophon-laugh-track in Firefox.

Can't read standard view, due to increasingly-standard non-scrolling sidebars.

Go into Reader View.

This is all that appears in Reader View:

spectrum.ieee.org
The Magnetophon and the Birth of the Laugh Track
Allison Marsh
18–22 minutes

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the extraction failure with the reported Spectrum IEEE URL and inspect the Reader View entry point that produces only the site link, title, author, and reading time. The fix is done when the article body is extracted for this page instead of only its metadata.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
web-dev
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
58/100

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