Re:When GIFs serve JavaScript
by exogen on Sunday November 23, 2014 @03:57PM
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Off-topic: Hilarious how broken Blogspot seems to be. Half the time I load this URL, I get a different post on the same blog ("Static DOM XSS Scanner") but still with the intended URL. Whatever this fancy JavaScript loading thing they are doing is utter bullshit.
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Re:When GIFs serve JavaScript
by oneeyedpigeon on Sunday November 23, 2014 @06:17PM
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Turning off javascript gives a blank page. Absolutely blank, not a single piece of content, not even - and this would still be terrible, just a tiny, tiny bit better than downright ridiculous - a message saying "you need javascript enabled to view this content". Say what you like about webapps requiring javascript (an argument for another day), there is no excuse for a blog requiring it.
The same thing happened to me. It's kind of ironic that to read an article about serving javascript in GIFs, I had to turn all of my js filters off.
Blogger is seriously horrible.
> I had to turn all of my js filters off.
I could read the article by enabling JS only for 1st-party + www.blogblog.com + www.blogger.com.
Thanks for pointing it out, I actually thought that was the article and didn't realise my mistake until I saw your comment.
Re:When GIFs serve JavaScript
by username223 on Sunday November 23, 2014 @07:11PM
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So blogspot.com is being merged with Google+? I only rarely bother to disable my JavaScript/ad blockers to read things there.
Looking at the source, it's a big pile of minified/obfuscated javascript crap. I can't be bothered to decode it.
I'm glad you mentioned this because I initially got the Static XSS Scanner and was about to flag the article as "full of lies"
Re:When GIFs serve JavaScript
by jrochkind1 on Sunday November 23, 2014 @07:23PM
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Aha, thanks for that, I was wondering why the post had nothing to do with GIFs.