I just noticed something interesting about the design/function of the Telegram and Gazette website. On the top of each comment page for a story they have a ‘bread crumb’ link designed to take you back to the story that particular comment page is a child of. It looks like this:
What’s interesting is that link is actually a script that tells your browser to go back one page in its history. So if I link to a comment page on the T&G directly and you then click that link, instead of going to the T&G story it relates to, as you would expect, it takes you back here to RadioBall. Kinda nice bug feature for a little site like mine. I enjoy pointing out how ridiculous the T&G commenters are but don’t necessarily like loosing the traffic.
Try it here:
link to a T&G comment page
For what it’s worth I’m seeing this behavior in Safari on a Mac, your mileage may vary.
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Using Firefox under Linux, and this happens.
Also note that if you open the article in a separate tab (as I would tend to do), you can’t click back to the article, because there’s no previous page for that tab.
Part 3: I usually use the NoScript Firefox extension. With NoScript on, none of the comments appear, but the article “link” does work.
Using Vista/Firefox with NoScript. Likewise, Noscript blocks the comments, but I can follow the link back here.
As a guy who just got his first laptop about a months ago, this is the first tech article I’ve ever posted on.
Which means Radioball just popped my noob cherry. I had my desk lit with candles, and had “Total Eclipse of the Heart” playing on on the background as I clicked “submit comment”.
I hope it was just as magical for you as it was for me, Buck.