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[Teneb]

I swear, it's getting hard to tell people with the photobucket avatars apart.

At any rate, that sounds rather unpleasant, Truean.

[hector13]

You don't know who it is immediately from the posting style?

[IcyTea31]

I looked at the source code of a web page for a career coaching company, and while the rest of the code was somewhat clumsy but acceptable, they had typed over 17000 characters on just one line. Why would anyone ever do that?

[itisnotlogical]

Intentional obfuscation?

[wierd]

Possible:

Unix style line endings, being opened on a windows box?

[pisskop]

i dont mean to sound ignorant here, but why look at source code for a site?

[wierd]

Are you kidding??

There is all kinds of neat stuff you can learn about a website's behavior and function by looking at the source code.


The problem these days, is that most of the code that "does stuff" is done in obfuscated code, running from a remotely called .js, which has call convention restrictions on the hosting server to keep you from just downloading and examining the .js file.

This is because "corporations" are involved, usually. (the people who are so horribly unoriginal, that they fear any novel thing their employees create will be instantly copied by competitors, and so intentionally break the open internet to prevent this in a wide assortment of ways, these being one of them.)

Still, knowing if your favorite news aggregator is using your browser as a honeypot to mine bitcoins behind your back is something that you will only find out by looking at the site's source code.

[Reelya]

I looked at the source code of a web page for a career coaching company, and while the rest of the code was somewhat clumsy but acceptable, they had typed over 17000 characters on just one line. Why would anyone ever do that?

Huh? Because line breaks count as characters for bandwidth purposes. It's good practice for your production web code to be like that. Plus it's removed not just line breaks, but all indentation/spaces/tabs and renamed all variables with shorter names. This can cut a big chunk off a large file. That line was 17K characters. Without clever packing, you could be looking at another 20-30K each time you load that webpage. That adds up when you consider all the page loads in the world. Also unless that page loads literally instantly, it's also a positive for user experience and site efficiency.

What's actually sloppy as hell is lazy companies that don't optimize their bandwidth like that. Lazy and verbose wordage / punctuation has carried over from the compiled languages into the web languages. People haven't adapted or adopted tools to optimize things, because they decided that the net costs to them aren't worth fixing it. However, the costs of not optimizing are externalized to your customers and the entire network. This is a "crisis of the commons" issue.

[Arx]

the people who are so horribly unoriginal, that they fear any novel thing their employees create will be instantly copied by competitors

It's almost as though that actually happens all the damn time.

Still, knowing if your favorite news aggregator is using your browser as a honeypot to mine bitcoins behind your back is something that you will only find out by looking at the site's source code.

Or when your browser consistently flatlines one of your CPU cores as soon as you open the aggregator

[wierd]

Sadly, many web pages flatline your CPU the instant they open anyway, because of all the 3rd party content trying to gagglefuck each other all at once anyway-- so, having high CPU use with the browser open is not really a good indicator of anything except that the site maker is an asshole. *shrug*

To find out exactly HOW they are being an asshole still requires you to look at the source code.

[milo christiansen]

Just use a good ad blocker. Takes care of that problem. Sadly since I started using a tablet the internet looks much scummier (mobile chrome doesn't support addons).

It is to the point where I am considering other browsers, but chrome does everything else exactly the way I like it. A solid ad blocker is the only missing feature.

[Rose]

If you're rooted, you can get a global adblocker for android.

[Zangi]

Had a dejavu moment while playing overwatch.  Was playing mercy following a lone soldier76 up the downhill/uphill curve place.  It just hit like that.

Also I may have just had my first legitimate nightmare dream thing in ages.  Well, it is mindfuck tier and I can remember it when it shocked me awake anyways.

[hops]

Old WTF but since we’re talking nightmares, one time I woke up breathing heavily from a nightmare in which a portrait of Alexander Hamilton threatened to kill me and then mince me up and put me in tin cans.

[wierd]

.....

Cinder, that gave me the stupidest mental picture....

Spoiler: "Dont open. Extremely silly. Save your braincells. You were warned." (click to show/hide)

Imagine the intro to SpongeBob Squarepants.

Instead of "Captain", you have Alexander Hamilton.

"Are you ready kids!?"

"Yes sir, Hamilton!"

"I CANT HEAR YOU!!"

"YES SIR, HAMILTON!!"

'Wellllll who wants to be ground up and stuffed in some tins!?"

(child chorus)
"DONT KILL MY ASS!"

"Challenge the portrait! Let's see which one wins!"

....

Ok, now it's just too silly to continue.