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Amazon's HTML code has a DUCK that says MEOW (2016)

28 points by alanfranz 10y ago

Theodores 10y ago
...and the new BBC news site has this pop up in the console: B B C NEWS Hi there! Do you want to help build a fast and accessible web experience used by over 300 million people around the world each month? We're hiring people for all sorts of roles. Head on over to http://careerssearch.bbc.co.uk/ http://careerssearch.bbc.co.uk/ (search for "News") to find out more! Which we have all seen before, but they do CSS in the console for the B B C News 'banner' which I have not worked out how to do yet.
- twiss 10y ago
  Styling console output with CSS: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/console/console-write#styling_console_output_with_css https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/cons...
- netcraft 10y ago
  in chrome, click the link in the console next to it that says `init.js:1` and then click the `{}` at the bottom to pretty print the file - it should take you to around line 210 and show you the whole console line which will show you how its done. More information here: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/console/console-reference#format-specifiers https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/cons...
- deleted 10y ago
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wlfmn 10y ago
Another interesting case: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015TG12Q/ref=sa_menu_kdxi3?pf_rd_p=328655101&pf_rd_s=left-nav-1&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=507846&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1YHPKP50ZR9X5VQPW2BP https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015TG12Q/ref=sa_menu_kdx... View source.
- bshimmin 10y ago
   ...for anyone who doesn't fancy looking through nearly twenty thousand (!) lines of markup and JavaScript.
- sp332 10y ago
  Shorteners are poor form on HN. Yours looks like this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015TG12Q/ref=sa_menu_kdxi3?pf_rd_p=328655101&pf_rd_s=left-nav-1&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=507846&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1YHPKP50ZR9X5VQPW2BP https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015TG12Q/ref=sa_menu_kdx... so it doesn't take up much space on the page even if it's really long.
  - wlfmn 10y ago
    Ah didn't know that, thanks!
- ffef 10y ago
  I see what you did there.
kevinmgranger 10y ago
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and meows like a cat... well, 2/3 ain't bad.
- SketchySeaBeast 10y ago
  Does that mean that it fails at duck typing?
  - Humdeee 10y ago
    Push it to production anyway, we'll call it a 'feature'.
    - sslayer 10y ago
      5/7 would clone repo again
camtarn 10y ago
Huh, interesting. There's been an HTML comment saying 'MEOW' at the bottom of Amazon pages for a long time[1], but I've never seen the duck-say version! [1] Here's a mention from 2010, but I suspect it goes back much further than that: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/azljs/til_amazoncom_appends_meow_to_the_end_of_all/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/azljs/til_am...

28 points by alanfranz 10y ago

...and the new BBC news site has this pop up in the console: B B C NEWS Hi there! Do you want to help build a fast and accessible web experience used by over 300 million people around the world each month? We're hiring people for all sorts of roles. Head on over to http://careerssearch.bbc.co.uk/ http://careerssearch.bbc.co.uk/ (search for "News") to find out more! Which we have all seen before, but they do CSS in the console for the B B C News 'banner' which I have not worked out how to do yet.

twiss 10y ago
Styling console output with CSS: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/console/console-write#styling_console_output_with_css https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/cons...
netcraft 10y ago
in chrome, click the link in the console next to it that says `init.js:1` and then click the `{}` at the bottom to pretty print the file - it should take you to around line 210 and show you the whole console line which will show you how its done. More information here: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/console/console-reference#format-specifiers https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/cons...
deleted 10y ago
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wlfmn 10y ago

Another interesting case: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015TG12Q/ref=sa_menu_kdxi3?pf_rd_p=328655101&pf_rd_s=left-nav-1&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=507846&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1YHPKP50ZR9X5VQPW2BP https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015TG12Q/ref=sa_menu_kdx... View source.

bshimmin 10y ago
 ...for anyone who doesn't fancy looking through nearly twenty thousand (!) lines of markup and JavaScript.
sp332 10y ago
Shorteners are poor form on HN. Yours looks like this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015TG12Q/ref=sa_menu_kdxi3?pf_rd_p=328655101&pf_rd_s=left-nav-1&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=507846&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1YHPKP50ZR9X5VQPW2BP https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015TG12Q/ref=sa_menu_kdx... so it doesn't take up much space on the page even if it's really long.
- wlfmn 10y ago
  Ah didn't know that, thanks!
ffef 10y ago
I see what you did there.

kevinmgranger 10y ago

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and meows like a cat... well, 2/3 ain't bad.

SketchySeaBeast 10y ago
Does that mean that it fails at duck typing?
- Humdeee 10y ago
  Push it to production anyway, we'll call it a 'feature'.
  - sslayer 10y ago
    5/7 would clone repo again

camtarn 10y ago

Huh, interesting. There's been an HTML comment saying 'MEOW' at the bottom of Amazon pages for a long time[1], but I've never seen the duck-say version! [1] Here's a mention from 2010, but I suspect it goes back much further than that: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/azljs/til_amazoncom_appends_meow_to_the_end_of_all/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/azljs/til_am...