"Jacob Carlborg" <d...@me.com> wrote in message news:jji5fa$qma$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 2012-03-10 20:41, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >> You know what I think it is (without actually looking at the code): I >> think >> they tried to do some highly misguided and even more poorly implemented >> hack >> (which they no-doubt thought was clever) for dealing with *cough* "old" >> *cough* browsers by inserting a meta redirect to a hardcoded URL, and >> then >> used JS to disable the meta redirect. If that's the case, I don't know >> how >> the fuck they managed to convince themselves that make one drop of sense. > > But they're redirecting to http://m.drdobbs.com/, which seems to be > adapted for mobile devices. >
Mobile sites have traditionally required less-fancy implementations, so it's not unreasonable to think that some sites would use their mobile version *as* their low-tech fallback version. That's becoming less and less true these days, of course. But looking at http://m.drdobbs.com/ I have a strong feeling that was originally created for things like AvantGo (ie, on PalmOS) which really were very limited: no JS, no nested tables, very low resolution, often not even any color, very low memory, etc. Not that anything about what they're doing really makes a whole lot of sense anyway, though.