Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message 
news:jji5fa$qma$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 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.
>

Mobile sites have traditionally required less-fancy implementations, so it's 
not unreasonable to think that some sites would use their mobile version 
*as* their low-tech fallback version. That's becoming less and less true 
these days, of course. But looking at http://m.drdobbs.com/ I have a strong 
feeling that was originally created for things like AvantGo (ie, on PalmOS) 
which really were very limited: no JS, no nested tables, very low 
resolution, often not even any color, very low memory, etc. Not that 
anything about what they're doing really makes a whole lot of sense anyway, 
though.