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Re:Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyrigh... by rym_ on Thursday November 19, 2015 @02:09AM (#10593215)
Not a JS developer at all, what does a zIndex of 99999 do?
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Re:Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyrigh... by SquareWheel on Thursday November 19, 2015 @02:12AM (#10593227)
This is actually CSS, not JS. z-index sets the layer of an element, so a higher z-index means that content will appear above other content.
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Re:Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyrigh... by mentando on Thursday November 19, 2015 @02:29AM (#10593281)
Well it is a very high zIndex, which of would force the element in the plane 99999.

What it says about the developer though, is that he didn't bother reading up on, what is the highest value, but just chose a rather high value of 99999.

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Re:Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyrigh... by adrianN on Thursday November 19, 2015 @03:30AM (#10593480)
Clearly he wanted to future-proof his code. Maybe in a while he'll need to display an even more important message.
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