• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
      81·
      1 month ago

      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?

      • bleistift2English
        9·
        1 month ago

        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.

        				<script>
		$.get("/rand.php",function(data){
			$('.cc-navaux').attr('href','https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/' + data);
		});
		</script>

        (lines 172ff. of the HTML source) Why? Ask the author.

          • bleistift2English
            1·
            1 month ago

            the extra comic panel was introduced as an incentive to do so - you would see it after voting

            We’re talking about the “random” comic link.