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Browsing HN with images disabled is impossible(no voting) for this reason (I wrote about it at https://gist.github.com/2947068 https://gist.github.com/2947068)
by captn3m0 14y ago
Browsing HN with images disabled is impossible(no voting) for this reason (I wrote about it at https://gist.github.com/2947068 https://gist.github.com/2947068)
- ajuc 14y agoStrange, I sometimes browse hn with links (lynx-like console browser), and voting works ok .
- Wilya 14y agoIIRC, links replaces images by some [alt-text] or [IMG]. Turning the images off in a graphical browser just.. well.. turns the images off.
- kellros 14y agoTrue, the 'icon' for up-voting is an image and can be easily replaced by the unicode equivalent. HN uses an image in javascript to simulate a HTTP GET request to signal that you have voted. ex. var img = new Image(); img.src = 'http://ycombinator.com/signal-voted?id=12345 http://ycombinator.com/signal-voted?id=12345; Makes sense because HN is not using jQuery or similar and it would be a lot more javascript to do it in a cross browser way (just source view hacker news - it's almost as small as it gets)