Help with a port

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 17, 2015, at 3:18 PM, - wrote:
> 
> On asking how one registers to submit a ticket when there are no apparant text entry fields to register when I attempted it at:
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> https://trac.macports.org/auth/login/?next=/newticket
> 
> A reply:
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>> Register link works fine here, you only need to enter a valid email address and desired password.  The login dialog looks almost identical to the registration dialog.
>> 
>> https://trac.macports.org/auth/register/ <https://trac.macports.org/auth/register/>
>> 
>> -Mike
> 
> This gave me a clue why it doesn't work for me using the lynx browser. Taking a quick look under the hood for the html coding for that url found it uses java script.  Lynx doesn't use java script, thus even the text fields to register don't appear.
> 
> I'm a blind computer user who prefers lynx because it is a text only browser; for obvious reasons.
> 
> The register function and any others at the macports site can be accomplished using standard non-java coding.  Perhaps some thought should be given this.

The page in question does include two JavaScript files, but they only serve to handle the admin menu, to which nobody except the MacPorts managers has access anyway. So yes, JavaScript is required for us managers to access the admin menu, but other than that, I don't think JavaScript is used in the MacPorts web sites, and Java isn't used either.