• Ron (unregistered)

    Frist kiss!

  • akozakie (unregistered)

    It's KISS = "Keep It Scripted Stupidly".

  • Jurarigo (unregistered)

    For more added "fun", it's possible that this array isn't handwritten, but generated by a server-side language.

  • dusoft (unregistered)

    They might not now about Simple KISS, because they have French KISS.

  • Robin (unregistered)

    While this is a particularly bad example, abuse of links (and buttons - including confusing the two) is still distressingly common and certainly did not die in 2006 or indeed ever.

    I see the developers behind this went to the trouble of adding mouseover and mouseout behaviour (to simulate link hover styling? Was this written so long ago that CSS :hover wasn't a thing, or are they doing some other javascript-y thing?) - but they didn't bother making it keyboard focusable (no tabindex there), or even adding an ARIA role of link (none of which would be necessary if using an actual HTML link with the appropriate href).

    But hey, we only need to develop for users who can see the screen perfectly and can use a mouse, amirite? :(

    (Although even for those, being able to see a link location at the bottom of the browser on hover, and right click to do things like copy the location or open in a new tab - which again you'd get for free with the correct HTML but would have a hard time faking correctly with Javascript - is pretty useful!)

  • The Dave G (unregistered)

    Maybe an attempt to keep bots from trolling the site?

  • Dave (unregistered)

    A site so old all the pages are deceased used bad web coding as typically found back when it was alive? Ok, the entire period is basically one giant wtf, but is this any sort of standout? I think we just look back in horror at almost all of it.

  • Dave (unregistered)

    A site so old all the pages are deceased used bad web coding as typically found back when it was alive? Ok, the entire period is basically one giant wtf, but is this any sort of standout? I think we just look back in horror at almost all of it.

  • (nodebb)

    The French may not be aware of KISS, but they have something else and maybe even better instead:

    https://www.wikihow.com/French-Kiss

  • (nodebb) in reply to Mr. TA

    I'm pretty sure that the French have heard of Gene Simmons's merry crew.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    Not mutually exclusive; the night starts with attending a music venue and progresses as it may.

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  • Vilx- (unregistered)
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  • xtal256 (unregistered)

    "This is an anti-pattern I thought had died circa 2006."

    Are you kidding!? I think I've seen this done more since then. Especially since these days every web page is an "app".

  • Farhan (unregistered) in reply to Ron
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  • (nodebb)

    TRWTF is php3

  • (nodebb) in reply to xtal256

    Especially since these days every web page is an "app".

    And conversely, of course, many apps are nothing more than an embedded mini-browser with a fixed starting page.

  • (nodebb)

    Well, the French word for kissis baiser. Which also has the meaning of to have sexual intercourse. Oh fuck!

  • aj (unregistered)

    The frist false is likely used to have the table indexable from 1.

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