New issue templates broke form prefilling of file-issue.js script about spec-factory HOT 6 CLOSED

For me it seems to work fine, it just bypasses the templates. Is the problem here that admins can bypass the templates but other users cannot?

I wonder if we should remove file-issue.js as nobody seems to be using it anyway.

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I wonder if we should remove file-issue.js as nobody seems to be using it anyway.

I tend to agree. Although I use it myself sometimes, the only use I see from others is the mountains and mountains of spam that I'm pretty sure comes from the file-issue.js links. (It follows the same format, of just the URL of some part of the spec as the body.)

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I think removing the script (and prefill function) would be fine ... however I do like the "File an issue" link in the corner ... perhaps we could implement the link in HTML so that it's also present without JavaScript?

(Sidenote: perhaps the new issue templates will deter some spam since it's now one more step to create an issue)

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Filed whatwg/whatwg.org#426 on potentially restoring it with CSS. I'm going to remove it for now as it's indeed broken and the CSS replacement isn't necessarily better.

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If it's causing spam then it's probably better to not have it.

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It's now been removed everywhere. Might take some time to roll out across all standards. There's potential for a CSS-based replacement, but it has some shortcomings as discussed in the issue referenced above.

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