Orionfeedback.org won’t load on iOS

Greenman

I’ve just recently started using Orion and I’m finding that some web sites fail to load/render almost entirely, while working as expected in Safari. Orionfeedback.org is one of those sites. The screenshot below is from Orion on my iPhone 15 after navigating to orionfeedback.org.

Debug info follows.
App version: 1.3.26 (9) (WebKit 8621.3.11.10.3)
System version: 18.6.2
Device type: ?unrecognized?
Native bounds: (1179.0, 2556.0)
Scale: 3.0
Regular tabs: 12/https://orionfeedback.org/
Private tabs: 0/(

I expected Orion to load and render the web page at orionfeedback.org.

iOS 18.6.2; Orion 1.3.27

Michal

do you have any extensions installed?

Greenman

No extensions installed

Greenman

A couple more clarifications might be helpful:

The web sites that don’t render on Orion display without issues on Safari.

Most web sites render on Orion without issues. I’ve only found a few that don’t, including orionfeedback.org and youtube.com.

I made sure that JavaScript is allowed in my Safari settings, in case that’s an issue that carries over through WebKit.

Greenman

This is baffling and I strongly suspect that it’s an issue local to my device, since other people don’t seem to be having it. Any ideas for further troubleshooting strategies?

Greenman

Another site that does render:
https://www.science.org/

On Orion iOS

On Safari iOS

Then after captcha (still Safari on iOS)

Could it be an issue with captcha?

Greenman

Wondering whether I should start a new thread since no one seems to be looking at this one, possibly because the title of this thread could be misleading. The issue is that the Orion browser on my iPhone fails to display many web sites that appear normal on Safari. Orionfeedback.org, mentioned in this thread’s title, is just one example. Here’s what YouTube looks like in Orion. I can see that enough data has loaded from the url to provide the basic graphic structure of the page, but no text or videos.

Greenman

Okay, I think the cause of this issue is that JavaScript is turned off, but I don’t know where that setting is so that I can confirm. Assuming that it might carry over through WebKit from Safari settings, I verified that JavaScript is turned on for Safari, but here’s the latest failed load in Orion.

Greenman

This confirms that Orion does not have JavaScript enabled, so how do I turn it on?

Greenman

I finally found JavaScript buried in the Settings menus. It was turned off by default and turning it on fixed the problems. It was frustrating that it took days for me to figure that out. I was on the verge of giving up on Orion. In order to promote wider adoption of Orion, I'd like to suggest more documentation and FAQs that address this type of issue.