• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
    122·
    1 month ago

    Uhm, if the owner of the site is here, the “random” button presents you with an xml.

      • 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.