On 3/9/25 08:35, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
D MacDougall <dmacdoug@ usc. edu> wrote: > On 3/8/25 12: 34,
debian-user@ howorth. org. uk wrote: > > That's just a blank page
except for a picture of a duck, the word > > DuckDuckGo and a search
box. No explanation of anything
D MacDougall <dmacd...@usc.edu> wrote:
> On 3/8/25 12:34, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> > That's just a blank page except for a picture of a duck, the word
> > DuckDuckGo and a search box. No explanation of anything at any
> > length?
>
>
> Very odd. On my phone I see exactly what you see plus several other
> things on the page. One other thing on the page is three small
> stacked dashes in the top right corner which, if clicked pulls down a
> very complete menu.
As you say, very odd. I enabled javascript and I still saw what I saw
before, except the magnifying glass changes colour depending on whether
it has focus. But if I then open a new window on the site, it does show
me what you're talking about. :(
> Like most websites these days it serves things up in a different
> format to different browsers. On a phone things are laid out
> vertically, on a computer with a wide screen, things are spread out
> across the screen.
Hmm, I wonder if it does that using CSS as it should, or whether it too
uses javascript :(
> I assume you were using a phone since that's what it looked like to me
> on my phone except I saw more.
No I'm using a linux box since we're discussing browsers on a linux
list! I don't do browsing on my phone, neither do I do anything
financial at all. Too much risk.
I figured it out. The page uses javascript. I had javascript enabled in
Firefox. When I disabled javascript it moved me to a different homepage
which doesn't use javascript.
The URL changed to https://html.duckduckgo.com/html
When I re-enabled javascript and updated the page it stayed on the html
URL and didn't get any of the javascript features back. I had to delete
the two instances of 'html' in the URL and then it went back to the
javascript page.
I agree with you about not doing financial stuff on a phone, but I do
sometimes do web browsing on the phone. I prefer not to because the
screen size is too limiting. I did it that particular time because I had
recommended Duckduckgo as a browser for Android even though it is a
bit off topic..
As to why the magnifying glass changes colour I didn't figure that out.
It did it for me too, and didn't seem to have anything to javascript.
