[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] gitlab accessibility

[Anna V.]

On 2022-07-15 09:09, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-07-14 at 16:21 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I was on vacation when the issues were brought up, but I want to start a
> > new thread about this.
> >
> > I will quote the sections from the messages on the previous thread I am
> > referring to.
> >
> > mgorny:
> > > I would really prefer if someone worked on the GitLab accessibility
> > > issues before someone tried to do that.  Like, made GitLab something
> > > more than a blank site on less-than-state-of-art web browsers.
> >
> > I don't know which browsers you are talking about. I personally use
> > chrome and it isn't a blank page. I'm sure it probably works on firefox
> > as well. I have briefly checked Edge and it is fine there.
> > I think you need to be more specific about the browsers you are talking
> > about. Also, if you are a web developer, you might want to open MR's for
> > gitlab to get this fixed if you can.
>
> I'm talking of browsers without ECMAScript, particularly text browsers.
> On GitHub, things obviously aren't perfect but I can at least find
> a file in the repository and view its contents.  On GitLab, the file
> list is simply not there.

You can always `git clone` the repo to view its files. But non-standard
features (like "merge requests" and CI) indeed require using either:

* a browser with bleeding edge JS support (because everyone uses latest
Chrome and Firefox and polyfills/babel are for losers who don't use
experimental features in production)
* OR custom CLI utilies (btw, can you point me on some I can use? like
dev-vcs/hub for GitHub -- I have no desire to interact with their heavy
and slow[0] web application).

[0]: https://forgeperf.org/