Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Jacob Carlborg]

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.

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/Jacob Carlborg