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Every reference to Kim Jong Un in official HTML is wrapped in a ﹤nobr﹥

58 points by 1as 9y ago

kenver 9y ago
Clearly just stop his name getting split, but it's also a nice bonus that it's semantically correct http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nob http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nob
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gozur88 9y ago
It's good to be the king, I suppose. I'd love to have all my pet peeves encoded into law.
ijafri 9y ago
I guess due to his last name. Un? If you break the title of this post before his last name it would read Un in official. But we also know that isn't the only reason. If you are his age with nukes I guess most would have H1 tag wrapped around it too.
- grzm 9y ago
  Here's where the common usage of first and last name break down: his family name is Kim. I suspect it's along the lines of what you're getting at: to keep the name together. I'm not sure how interesting this is in and of itself. It might be interesting to see if this is a special case. If it is, is there a particular reason for it? One could speculate all kinds of reasons, but I'm not sure how useful that is without actually knowing why.
  - BuuQu9hu 9y ago
    If you look at [the site](http://www.kcna.kp http://www.kcna.kp), none of the other names there (even Ri Sol Ju who i think is his wife) are in the tag – so it must be a facet of their content mgmt system
  - ijafri 9y ago
    Added the alternative and more realistic version of my analysis in the last part.
- ahakki 9y ago
  Yes. These tags are correct and necessary. Can't see what the fuss is about, other than that NK knows how to use HTML.
  - Skunkleton 9y ago
    > NK knows how to use HTML. This is a disturbing leap in their technological capabilities. Whats next? Nukes? That would be unthinkable.
    - cucuuc 9y ago
      I have no idea why you were downvoted :S
      - Skunkleton 9y ago
        Sarcasm doesn't really play well on HN. What can I say? I was having a bad day.
  - stevenjgarner 9y ago
    DPRK seems to know a LOT more than HTML. They are not dependent on (read vulnerable to) the Internet in the burgeoning ways of the rest of the world. They clearly see it asymmetrically, as our Kryptonite: 1) "its connection to a hacking group called Lazarus that is linked to last year’s $81 million cyber heist at the Bangladesh central bank and the 2014 attack on Sony’s Hollywood studio" - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-northkorea-exclusive/exclusive-north-koreas-unit-180-the-cyber-warfare-cell-that-worries-the-west-idUSKCN18H020 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-northkorea-exclusiv... 2) "Bureau 121 is staffed by some of North Korea's most talented computer experts and is run by the Korean military." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_121#cite_note-reuters-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_121#cite_note-reuters-1 3) "The wannacry ransomware has a link to suspected North Korean hackers" - https://www.wired.com/2017/05/wannacry-ransomware-link-suspected-north-korean-hackers/ https://www.wired.com/2017/05/wannacry-ransomware-link-suspe...
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civilian 9y ago
It's also bolded and, at least in the left sidebar of news articles, it was set to be 1pt larger than the surrounding font size.
eddanger 9y ago
Dear Leader can't be broken in HTML or real life.
thesmallestcat 9y ago
I want this in my linters. Why take a chance?
closeparen 9y ago
Not as cool as North Korea's extremely zealous use of the strong tag: https://gizmodo.com/5599650/in-north-korea-even-the-html-coding-is-very-strong https://gizmodo.com/5599650/in-north-korea-even-the-html-cod...
- jaredandrews 9y ago
  Can anyone guess how this happened? A static generator going haywire maybe?
jaredandrews 9y ago
I had no idea this tag existed so I looked it up: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/nobr https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/no... Turns out it's a non-standard tag. FireFox supports it though and the Red Star OS uses a browser that is a fork of Firefox[0]. My understanding is that the Red Star OS is the only OS used in North Korea. So I guess that means in North Korea, `nobr` _is_ in the standard. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS

58 points by 1as 9y ago

Clearly just stop his name getting split, but it's also a nice bonus that it's semantically correct http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nob http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nob

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gozur88 9y ago

It's good to be the king, I suppose. I'd love to have all my pet peeves encoded into law.

ijafri 9y ago

I guess due to his last name. Un? If you break the title of this post before his last name it would read Un in official. But we also know that isn't the only reason. If you are his age with nukes I guess most would have H1 tag wrapped around it too.

grzm 9y ago
Here's where the common usage of first and last name break down: his family name is Kim. I suspect it's along the lines of what you're getting at: to keep the name together. I'm not sure how interesting this is in and of itself. It might be interesting to see if this is a special case. If it is, is there a particular reason for it? One could speculate all kinds of reasons, but I'm not sure how useful that is without actually knowing why.
- BuuQu9hu 9y ago
  If you look at [the site](http://www.kcna.kp http://www.kcna.kp), none of the other names there (even Ri Sol Ju who i think is his wife) are in the tag – so it must be a facet of their content mgmt system
- ijafri 9y ago
  Added the alternative and more realistic version of my analysis in the last part.
ahakki 9y ago
Yes. These tags are correct and necessary. Can't see what the fuss is about, other than that NK knows how to use HTML.
- Skunkleton 9y ago
  > NK knows how to use HTML. This is a disturbing leap in their technological capabilities. Whats next? Nukes? That would be unthinkable.
  - cucuuc 9y ago
    I have no idea why you were downvoted :S
    - Skunkleton 9y ago
      Sarcasm doesn't really play well on HN. What can I say? I was having a bad day.
- stevenjgarner 9y ago
  DPRK seems to know a LOT more than HTML. They are not dependent on (read vulnerable to) the Internet in the burgeoning ways of the rest of the world. They clearly see it asymmetrically, as our Kryptonite: 1) "its connection to a hacking group called Lazarus that is linked to last year’s $81 million cyber heist at the Bangladesh central bank and the 2014 attack on Sony’s Hollywood studio" - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-northkorea-exclusive/exclusive-north-koreas-unit-180-the-cyber-warfare-cell-that-worries-the-west-idUSKCN18H020 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-northkorea-exclusiv... 2) "Bureau 121 is staffed by some of North Korea's most talented computer experts and is run by the Korean military." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_121#cite_note-reuters-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_121#cite_note-reuters-1 3) "The wannacry ransomware has a link to suspected North Korean hackers" - https://www.wired.com/2017/05/wannacry-ransomware-link-suspected-north-korean-hackers/ https://www.wired.com/2017/05/wannacry-ransomware-link-suspe...
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civilian 9y ago

It's also bolded and, at least in the left sidebar of news articles, it was set to be 1pt larger than the surrounding font size.

eddanger 9y ago

Dear Leader can't be broken in HTML or real life.

thesmallestcat 9y ago

I want this in my linters. Why take a chance?

closeparen 9y ago

Not as cool as North Korea's extremely zealous use of the strong tag: https://gizmodo.com/5599650/in-north-korea-even-the-html-coding-is-very-strong https://gizmodo.com/5599650/in-north-korea-even-the-html-cod...

jaredandrews 9y ago
Can anyone guess how this happened? A static generator going haywire maybe?

jaredandrews 9y ago

I had no idea this tag existed so I looked it up: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/nobr https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/no... Turns out it's a non-standard tag. FireFox supports it though and the Red Star OS uses a browser that is a fork of Firefox[0]. My understanding is that the Red Star OS is the only OS used in North Korea. So I guess that means in North Korea, `nobr` _is_ in the standard. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS