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Issue #2
A tweet is set as cover. This doesn't work in mobile IV and results in a missing element.
- Accepted by admin
- Source: http://telegra.ph/Reports-4-08-02 (17)
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The thing is, technically embeds are currently follow the same rules as any other content within <figure>s.
I haven't removed it from the body, IV engine did it.
If content can't be a cover, IV engine should not pick it up and remove from the body. It wouldn't do this for other content.
It's a really unexpected behavior, it's not documented anywhere, thus the issue is really easy to miss and really hard to find in time.
Moreover, it can (and I'd say really should) be fixed once for all in the IV engine.
Meantime, situations where this issue would occur are really rare. I haven't found any other occurrence during the contest time. So did no one else.
It seems to be a one-off case after all. In addition to unclarity on IV engine behavior/documentation part.
- Accepted by admin
- While it would indeed be more logical for the IV engine to throw an error and not generate an IV in case an unsupported element gets set as a cover, if such a change were made right now (as it will be before the next contest), it would result in articles that start in tweets to not be generated by this template for no good reason.
That said, articles that start in tweets are not uncommon on this website, e.g.:
June, 13 http://bit.ly/2v1zvBe
June, 8 http://bit.ly/2fbyYa6
It would have been better to not use covers on this domain altogether — especially since they are used inconsistently.
In addition to the above, this domain seems to have an issue with polls similar to the one we've recently discussed for its sister site (http://bit.ly/2v0IWAA). See this example from June, 8:
http://bit.ly/2vu4rdV
- Type of issue
- IV page is missing essential content
- Reported
- Aug 2, 2017