*How* popular is this article?
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Apparently this article is pretty popular. Or is it? I can't tell.
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Apparently this article is pretty popular.
Ah, the Murky News. That anything about their site might be a WTF does not surprise me, not to mention their content.
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That anything about their site might be a WTF does not surprise me,
Wow, I did a view-source and there are some gems in there... too many to chose from, so I'll go short and sweet:
/************* DO NOT ALTER ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE ! **************/
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/************* DO NOT ALTER ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE ! **************/This is going above every post I make on Discourse while @codinghorror is a moderator.
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Wow, I did a view-source and there are some gems in there
I didn't bother (I didn't even bother reading the article), but Ghostery blocked what may be the longest list of junk I've seen on a single site.
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I didn't bother (I didn't even bother reading the article), but Ghostery blocked what may be the longest list of junk I've seen on a single site.
I went to that page, and the page kept adding more stuff for about 30 seconds after it finished loading.
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/************* DO NOT ALTER ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE ! **************/
Mein Gott. I had a techie from another company trying to explain implied behaviour like this to me once. Unfortunately the way he explained it was "Add your code below here. Everything below here will be removed.". I thought he had made a typo and meant to tell me to add the code above or that everything above would be removed. Uncertain over the phraseology, I requested a confirmation of my understanding. His response sadly began with "at the risk of repeated myself" and included the technical reason, which was to replace certain sections with adverts periodically.
I didn't want to victimise him, but I still joked with my colleagues that there was no risk that he would be repeating himself.
As it is, I still don't understand (or properly remember) this pattern for web advertising. My suspicion is that it is for old websites, although this was for a homepage owned by a company named after a fruit and colour.
