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Re:When GIFs serve JavaScript by exogen on Sunday November 23, 2014 @03:57PM (#8649903)
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.
Re:When GIFs serve JavaScript by oneeyedpigeon on Sunday November 23, 2014 @06:17PM (#8650334)
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.
Re:When GIFs serve JavaScript by krapp on Sunday November 23, 2014 @04:08PM (#8649931)
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.

Re:When GIFs serve JavaScript by gorhill on Sunday November 23, 2014 @04:49PM (#8650064)
> 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.

Re:When GIFs serve JavaScript by vq on Sunday November 23, 2014 @04:19PM (#8649967)
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 (#8650468)
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.

Re:When GIFs serve JavaScript by defen on Sunday November 23, 2014 @06:54PM (#8650419)
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 (#8650490)
Aha, thanks for that, I was wondering why the post had nothing to do with GIFs.