On 2012-03-10 20:41, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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.
But they're redirecting to http://m.drdobbs.com/, which seems to be adapted for mobile devices.
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.
Yeah, probably. -- /Jacob Carlborg
