[SOLVED] What is needed for git sites?

FTIO · 11-11-2021, 06:57 AM

Hi gang,

Every time I see a link to get something (a download for instance) from a 'git' site, my browser redirects there just fine, but I see darn near nothing or the browsers just seem to hang and nothing happens other than a few graphics of the page.

Is there something I need to install to make my browsers 'see' a git site correctly and even make it so I can finally download things from one?

At present I'm using 'current' and either Basilisk or SeaMonkey as my main browsers.

Windu · 11-11-2021, 07:58 AM

Can you share one of these troublesome URLs?

kgha · 11-11-2021, 09:59 AM

I noticed some months ago that Palemoon no longer could display github sites properly (one of the reasons why I switched to Vivaldi as my everyday browser). No surprise, then, that Basilisk also has problems. For me, Seamonkey handles github properly, though.
Not as bad as the OP describes it, but compare the screenshots attached.

kgha · 11-11-2021, 10:20 AM

[Continued:] After a bit of googling I found that the Github web pages include some WebComponent stuff that Palemoon won't support out of the box. There's a plugin, though, that solves this issue. Works for Basilisk as well:
https://github.com/JustOff/github-wc-polyfill

FTIO · 11-11-2021, 11:35 PM

One of the sites that gave me trouble was https://github.com/KDE/kmuddy . It always looked like the first screenshot that kgha posted above, as did almost all of them it seemed.

Now with the plugin, I actually see that page and all that I can download or whatever.

Thanks, kgha!