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The Test
(www.smbc-comics.com)
Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
The rules are simple:
Web of links
~~Uhm, if the owner of the site is here, the "random" button presents you with an xml.~~
Not for me. Did you maybe find an easter egg?
Oh right, i have third-party scripts blocked by default on mobile. Now it works.
Still, uh, why was it made that way, that it needs JS to random-load a page?
Without JS the button points to the RSS feed. This serves as a placeholder. The button was most likely copied and pasted.
Upon page load the website makes a call to the
/rand.php
endpoint, which returns a date in ISO8601 format. That is then used to produce the actual link.(lines 172ff. of the HTML source) Why? Ask the author.
We’re talking about the “random” comic link.