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A comment on Firefox Test Pilot.

Re:Firefox Test Pilot by dingaling on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @05:32PM (#11670836)
What a curious page; just blank-white in Firefox 46.0 on Linux with this output in the console:

"You have google analytics blocked. We understand. Take a look at our privacy policy to see how we handle your data."

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Re:Firefox Test Pilot by 6a68 on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @05:36PM (#11670867)
You need to have JavaScript enabled to use the site
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Re:Firefox Test Pilot by wodenokoto on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @06:44PM (#11671287)
That may be, but the error is still terrible.
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Re:Firefox Test Pilot by Blaaguuu on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @05:38PM (#11670876)
Huh... I'm on Chrome in Windows 10, and I have Google Analytics blocked, and the rest of the page loads fine for me.
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Re:Firefox Test Pilot by 6a68 on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @06:02PM (#11671044)
Yeah, the site is templated client-side using Ampersand (though lmorchard keeps threatening to rewrite it in React as a weekend project). Should work fine with tracking disabled, but won't work at all without JS.
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Re:Firefox Test Pilot by jeena on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @06:23PM (#11671177)
Oh wow, this is one of the simple designs which only needs HTML and CSS, no JS at all to work, I wonder why they chose to do it this way.
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Re:Firefox Test Pilot by Mithaldu on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @03:24AM (#11673232)
As do i, so i reported it as a bug: https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot/issues/774
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Re:Firefox Test Pilot by lmorchard on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @12:39PM (#11676841)
It looks simple, but it actually does a lot of communication behind the scenes via JS with an add-on installed in the browser. Also, someday, this whole web app may end up embedded in Firefox itself.
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