Cannot add new friend/WebID in Friends pane - solidcommunity.net server and Ubuntu OS

[mariadimou]

Related to https://github.com/solid/solid-ui/issues/380

I can't add any friends to my Friends pane. I follow instructions from https://github.com/solid/userguide/blob/main/views/friends/userguide.md The drop drops nothing. I am https://dimou.solidcommunity.net/, my OS is Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and I tried with Firefox, Chrome and also with Chromium. This is what Inspect Element shows me for Firefox:

Uncaught TypeError: e.forEach is not a function
    d buttons.js:846
    s dragAndDrop.js:103

Thanks in advance for fixing this.

[mariadimou]

This is what I see when I try to drag/drop a friend. Please see on the right that I am logged in as Maria Dimou and that I have put Jan Schill's WebID on the URI field and when dragging the dotted square with the cross appears but the drop doesn't complete.

Thank you again for your attention. Maria

[timbl]

I don't think it works to put the target URI into the URI bar of the SAME wtab .. if you just overwrite the local URI bar the browser doesn't make it draggable as it doesn'r represent what you are looking at. You must put it in another tab's url bar and hit return, so that you are looking at Jan Schill in their profile. Thendrag it from that tab into the tab with the friends list.

[timbl]

To drag between tabs, drag to the second tab, wait for the body of the tab to be rendered again, then drop within that tab.

[mariadimou]

In case I shouldn't have tried to drag/drop from the same browser tab I tried also from another browser window, without success.

I wonder if this is a Ubuntu or a solidcommunity.net issue because @janschill or @timbl don't have this problem. They are on different NSS implementations though!

Thanks for your attention! Looking fwd to your advice! Maria

[jeff-zucker]

It works for me using Linux Mint 20.04 which should be pretty close to Ubuntu with Chrome 89. I open my profile in one tab, the person's profile in another, click and hold on the lock icon in the location bar of the other person's tab, drag it to my profile tab, hover, my profile appears, I drop the lock icon on it. I get a new listing on my profile. That said, there should also be a URL entry option - otherwise instead of just entering the webId URL, I have to open a new tab, enter the webId, go to the page, and then drag it back to where I could have just typed it in in the first place.

[mariadimou]

Halleluja! Adding my friends to https://dimou.solidcommunity.net/profile/card#me worked only with Chrome in Ubuntu. Never with Firefox, in the end.

I think, once someone got permission and knows the WebID of a friend, the interface should allow one to start typing that WebID and, if it exists, to complete and accept.

At least, as a first step, could the maintainer of the solidcommunity.net UI test with various browsers and OSs and clarify the https://github.com/solid/userguide/blob/main/views/friends/userguide.md For instance, point 1. Highlight the WebID for the friends (e.g., in the web browser address bar). never worked for me, not even in Chrome. I had to highlight my friend's WebID in another tab and drag it to mine. This should be clear, else people get hostile... Thank you for your attention! Maria

[timea-solid]

The initial problem cannot be reproduced on Chrome and Firefox. But I can confirm it persists on Safari: https://github.com/solid/solid-ui/issues/380 Manual has been since updated to be more explicit about what to drag. The second part of the ticket was reflected in a feature request: https://github.com/solid/solidos/issues/45