"Jacob Carlborg" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 2012-03-10 08:18, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Andrei Alexandrescu"<[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >>> >>> Insert obligatory link: http://drdobbs.com/184401197 >>> >>> Very insightful article. >>> >> >> Jesus christ what the FUCK is wrong with Dr Dobbs? The article shows up >> *just fine* - *at first*, and then once all the excess junk around the >> edges >> finishes loading, the stupid fucking thing redirects me (WITH NO BACK >> BUTTON!) to this useless shit: http://m.drdobbs.com/ >> >> What the fuck is wrong with web developers? You'd think at a >> ***PROGRAMMING*** MAGAZINE they could fucking get basic shit straight >> without scrwing up things that a NOVICE wouldn't even KNOW how to fuck >> up! >> Goddamn. >> >> It sounds like a great article, judging by the first paragraph, but I >> have >> to read it a couple sentences at a time. How the hell do "professions" >> botch >> things up *that* badly? > > Happens to me as well. Mac OS X, Firefox 10.0.2, JavaScript turned off by > default. >
You know what I think it is (without actually looking at the code): I think they tried to do some highly misguided and even more poorly implemented hack (which they no-doubt thought was clever) for dealing with *cough* "old" *cough* browsers by inserting a meta redirect to a hardcoded URL, and then used JS to disable the meta redirect. If that's the case, I don't know how the fuck they managed to convince themselves that make one drop of sense. When I used one of my web developer plugins to disable meta redirects, the screwy behavior stopped. And like you, I have JS off by default (WTF do you need JS for on a goddamn *ARTICLE*?). So that's probably what the numbnuts over at Dr Dobbs did.
