On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:04:29PM -0800, Kevin Carhart wrote:
> We could keep this formulation in mind - it seems
> like something I have stumbled on before: in the rendered
> html, the user might hit something incongruous like
> <Log in><Log out>
> Combined with the fact that it doesn't work right.
> One reason it could be this way is that site
> authors have coded a
> superset in their server-side code, and are intending
> on using JS to always take away one of those on the
> client side before it reaches the user.  But then maybe
> if the JS file breaks on something else (like Sibling
> or other things), the JS file bails out and the code
> responsible for the take-away is never reached.  I
> think maybe the candy-store website has this too.

I don't know about that specific website but yeah, I've seen this a lot.
there are also sites and frameworks (names escape me right now)
which use this kind of thing as a sort of app level cache mechanism by sending
everything then deleting bits and dynamically filling in others with...
you guessed it... AJAX.

Cheers,
Adam.

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