Not possible to follow some links using "f" in certain sites

[marvinbelfort]

I'm opening this issue because:

• I'll report a bug
• I'll propose a new feature

Description

Some links does not show a letter near it when you press "F" or "f", making it impossible to follow.

Steps to Reproduce

In this site: https://golang.org/pkg/os/exec/
Scroll down until you find some "Example" link.
Press "F" or "f"
Every other link can be followed ( shows a letter near it), except the "Example".

System configuration

• Operating system: Windows 10 and Arch Linux.
• Firefox version:57.0 64bit.
• Vim-Vixen version:0.6

[grummi92]

Probably because those example 'links' aren't links at all, but p elements with added javascript functionality. I'm going out on a limb and say that such 'links' will never be followable by vim-vixen. It just is not possible to recognize such 'links'. Vimperator doesn't support them either.

[ueokande]

That is a bad example on web accesibility. Clickable elements must be <button> or <input> elements, or be with attribute role attribute. Vim Vixen can pick such elements.

[AnomalRoil]

I guess this could be reported as a bug to the Go team.

[steponeloops]

Unfortunately this is quite common (looking at you, reddit).
Maybe we could have the possibility to add selectors in the json file - this would be unobtrusive to the "normal" user and still give more experienced users the possibility to solve this problem?

[grummi92]

Just out of curiosity: What exactly does not work on reddit? Had a quick look with vimperator, and I couldn't find any elements not selectable via hints.
If Vim Vixen would support the same selectors for hints as vimperator (see also #257), reddit at least should be no problem.

[steponeloops]

the expand buttons.

[mathstuf]

In uzbl, we have a "click" action using the same logic as follow, but instead of links, it looks for "clickable" items (including form elements and those with an onclick attribute). Maybe this would be a good addition as a new action?

[Moelf]

this even happens for this repo https://github.com/ueokande/vim-vixen

When you first visit the page, press 'f' works, then esc, then C-d about 5 times until you're looking at all text, then you press 'f', nothing shows up, as expected. But now if you esc then 'gg' and 'f' again, links at the top of the pages stop being tagged as well. Very strange behavior.