• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
    81·
    17 days 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?

    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      9·
      17 days 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.

        • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          16 days 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.