PeerJ's Paper Now problems...

[BigBlueHat]

There's a link to Via includes in the Paper Now UI. Generally, it works great...but there are some exceptions.

Testing their example page on it's own, via Via, and with the Chrome extension.

Firefox + Via:

• selecting is erratic...selection jumps about strangely
  • generally it narrows in on a single paragraph...and highlights the whole thing
  • double clicking the word to select usually causes the selection to disappear/stop
  • there are some click-handlers in the theme that enlarge the math on click
• selection works fine on the test page with Hypothes.is off
• several JS errors referencing either their included JS or our provided angular.js--likely the source of the selection problems
• sidebar only shows a single annotation by invisiblecomma

Firefox + bookmarklet:

• sidebar tabs (currently) count 9 annotations
  • 1 is the same one by invisiblecomma...but this time it has a tag (earlier it did not)
  • 2 others are visible in the sidebar (by jeremydean and memartone), but are not visible in the page
  • the other 6 are mysteriously not displaying in the sidebar

Chrome + Via:

• same / similar JS errors as in Firefox
• shows no tabs on the sidebar
• has 2 annotations in the sidebar--the one from invisiblecomma (sans tag), and...one from seanh (previously unseen in other scenarios...)
  • apparently that seanh annotation is borked: https://hypothes.is/api/annotations/HqRbqZ5nQ4WbldCicsLlcA
  • note [object Object] as the value for source inside target, for uri, and for the link href values
• strangely...so does the invisiblecomma one... https://hypothes.is/api/annotations/QJEVZJWIQr6JpVVEpr0slA

Chrome + Extension:

• 2 annotations noted in the tabs (not 9...)
  • one by jeremydean and the other by memartone
  • the invisiblecomma one is absent...
• lots of JS errors...different ones this time...mostly reference "Uncaught Error: Found no info for path..."
• double-clicking (to select) throws the selection from the word you're on down to the bottom of the page...true on both sides of the page

In all of these cases the "note | highlight" adder icon only showed sporadically--with Chrome + Via the most frequently successful (which was like...1 in 20...).

Likely, the JS related conflicts are to blame for most of these. However, I thought documenting them might help narrow the target...I hope. 😕

[tilgovi]

Needs to be re-evaluated now that the anchoring rewrite has shipped.

[judell]

Notes on what I continue to see at https://peerj.github.io/paper-now/:

• In FF, clicking highlights (e.g. 37°C) doesn't pop the sidebar and focus the annotation
• selection pops the adder but clicking New Note does not pop; the sidebar and focus a new annotation
• these console complaints:

[tilgovi]

I always saw console complaints about Polymer not being a function, at least on via.

[tilgovi]

It would be nice to try to narrow these down a bit, like by trying to repro some of this on polymer demos.

[tilgovi]

The a.getAttribute traceback happens even without the annotator loaded, so that's not us.

[tilgovi]

I think the reduce of empty array bit is something I have seen before and it's the reduce in the highlight module's getBoundingClientRect function.

[tilgovi]

That happens whenever we find a range but don't create any highlights for it during anchoring. This can happen when the highlighted portion is only whitespace, or perhaps when we find a quote by prefix but only the prefix is there, not the quote.

[tilgovi]

So, that's some info for anyone who investigates. No one should feel compelled to follow up on that right now, but first thing to do here is to break apart the separate issues and put them under something other than "PeerJ's Paper Now problems..."

[judell]

Closed in favor of #2730.