My OperaSlashdot runs out of slashes
Thursday, March 29, 2012 11:18:39 AM
Q: What's this?
A: It's what Slashdot looks like in Opera 11.50.
Q: Why is it broken?
A: Apparently they ran out of forward slashes during the work on the last update? Here's their HTML:
The "SlashTV" link is supposed to be an icon and thus they use a quirky combination of styles to hide all the text inside it and display an image instead (this is a technique known as CSS image replacement).
Since they didn't close the tag properly, the pre-HTML5 parser thinks all remaining content on the page is inside the SPAN, and applies styling like text-indent: -999999px; to make all the text on the site disappear.
I wonder what their code will look like when they run out of dots too!
A: It's what Slashdot looks like in Opera 11.50.
Q: Why is it broken?
A: Apparently they ran out of forward slashes during the work on the last update? Here's their HTML:
<a class="btn link slashtvico" href="http://tv.slashdot.org"><span>SlashTV<span></a>
The "SlashTV" link is supposed to be an icon and thus they use a quirky combination of styles to hide all the text inside it and display an image instead (this is a technique known as CSS image replacement).
Since they didn't close the tag properly, the pre-HTML5 parser thinks all remaining content on the page is inside the SPAN, and applies styling like text-indent: -999999px; to make all the text on the site disappear.
I wonder what their code will look like when they run out of dots too!
Hallvord R. M. Steenhallvors # Thursday, March 29, 2012 11:38:29 AM
Uncle MickMickeyjoe-Irl # Thursday, March 29, 2012 12:21:44 PM
Jimtoyotabedzrock # Friday, March 30, 2012 3:44:44 AM
It seems to break on handling relative URLs properly.
Charles SchlossChas4 # Friday, March 30, 2012 3:55:17 AM
type /. (then hit enter)
Robert Jacobsenrobertj # Friday, March 30, 2012 8:51:16 AM
nef ~$ wget -q -O - http://slashdot.org | grep tvico <a class="btn link slashtvico" href="http://tv.slashdot.org"><span>SlashTV</span></a>d4rkn1ght # Friday, March 30, 2012 3:09:34 PM
Originally posted by robertj:
Rafael Luikrafaelluik # Sunday, April 1, 2012 1:48:37 AM
Originally posted by Chas4:
Michael A. Puls IIburnout426 # Sunday, April 1, 2012 4:03:39 AM
Originally posted by rafaelluik:
Funny. I recently used that. I don't visit slashdot very often and had forgotten whether it was .org or .com. So, I just typed /. and pressed enter.