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Attack of the JavaScript Zombies
It's kinda fun when people who hate us vent their aggression electronically. It's also kinda fun when people who otherwise like us vent their aggression electronically. Take one Web site, add a pinch of JavaScript, et violà - instant vitriol.
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antigod@innocent.com writes:
The Low Road link doesn't work, it only leads right back to the index.html.
We looked through the referrer stats for the site and saw a lot of folks were linking to pages inside the site rather that the home page. Kewl thing about the Net is you can link anywhere you want. Unkewl thing is it's kinda hard to keep track of visitors that way. Since we're not making any cash off this site, the only reward we get is hit-count, and it's kinda hard to know when folks jump into the site at random locations.
And so ... Anne put together a handful of script routines that would send folks right back to the home page if they didn't come in that way. They had the unfortunate side-effect of disabling the "low road" link for folks whose browsers are capable of taking the high road. It's not the worst thing that you can get from slumming.
All the same, we'll re-post the home page with a tweak that shows only one button, appropriate to whatever browser you happen to be using.
One caveat: if you have a script-capable browser but have disabled scripting, you may not have any way of entering at all. Kinda like if you have a drive-capable car and disable the wheels. I imagine there'd be some pretty wild calls if Ford had a help desk.
For folks who have some kind of aversion to technology, there are a few FTP servers where they can still download a copy of Netscape 0.9, so all the pages on the Internet will be the same soothing shade of gray.
Or maybe they can just wait for the paperback version of the Internet to come out.
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yaldabaoth@geocities.com writes:
You really f**ked up your website.... My advice? Get rid of the JavaScript ...
Aren't you using a GeoCities mail account? Have you seen what they do to people who host sites with them? If you're on some kinda JavaScript purity crusade, perhaps you ought to start by shoveling up the piles in your own back yard?
Click "Low Road"...And see the same page again! And again! And again!...
It's an IQ test. Tally up the number of times you clicked "low road" and multiply by ten, then subtract from 100. Looks like you're hovering around room temperature, unless you just got tired of typing "and again"s. Probably runs in the family - yo mama named you "Yalda", after all.
Honestly, did you think anything different would happen the *second* time you clicked the same link? Or the third? I got a stove you can touch a few dozen times if that would amuse you.
Anyway, it's not like we programmed a bit of mischief that would force you to click a random number of times before we'd let you into ...
.. hey, there's an idea!
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dead_puppies@hotmail.com writes:
I'm assuming that your "low road" link is actually intended to do something, though perhaps I'm wrong.
Yup - it's there to accommodate folks with antique Web browsers and tick off pinheads at the same time - the Yin and Yang of technology is win-win, at least for us.
Javascript is an annoying waste of time.
Not as much a waste of time as getting all peevish and firing off snippy little e-mails to people who just don't give a happy fart. You paid us all of nothing to build the site to your own personal preferences, so we'll gladly send you a full refund if you'll send SASE.
Javascript is a REALLY annoying waste of time.
Write to the folks at Netscape, CC it to Sun. If you're looking for anyone who pays attention to bottom-feeders, you'll find that Cyberspace is a vast, cold void.
There now, I hope I've helped.
Well, there's always hope.
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