On 11/22/2013 9:36 PM, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> Ray Davison wrote:
>
>> There is a news site - theblaze.com - that has long been slow and jerky
>> probably because of all the video. But now it is spontaneously
>> reloading the home page as well as the linked pages every few seconds.
>
> It reloads via JavaScript, every 5 seconds.
>
> <script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function($) {
> $.blazereFresher({"threadhtime":0.5,"reloadtime":5}); });</script>
>
> The page has over 583 Kilobytes of JavaScript, a lot of it from Google's
> jQuery crap, plus many trackers.
>
> One of the worst sites I've looked at in quite a while.
>
It does not require JavaScript to force reloads. A simple META tag in
the Web page's header will do the same.
I often visit a different news site that had some really annoying
JavaScripts. I already had the PrefBar exention installed and had added
a checkbox to enable and disable JavaScript. I would disable it (clear
the checkox) when viewing that news site, but the home page from which I
started would then redirect to another page. So I added a checkbox to
PrefBar to warn me and ask for permission when a Web page redirected to
another page. I would disable JavaScript and enable redirect warnings
as soon as the news home page loaded; JavaScript was required in order
to load it but not to open tabs on individual news items.
Fortunately, the site was revised. I no longer have to diddle
JavaScript and redirects. This is good because sometimes I would forget
to undiddle them when leaving the site.
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