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July 28

Is there any good old school chat websites?

Where you don't have to download anything to chat on it? Venustar84 (talk) 03:02, 28 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Good" is a matter of preference. There are a number of chat sites though. Just do a search with your favorite search engine for chat site and you should be able to find many. One of the top results for me was Omegle. Dismas|^(talk) 03:05, 28 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There are a number of online IRC clients available. One that I found after a minute of googling was Kiwi IRC, though there are many more out there that might work better for you. Gbear605 (talk) 21:19, 28 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What happens in these comic strip URLs? (Firefox only)

This relates to this question and this question that I asked earlier. I can go to the June 20 comic strip, for example; watch what happens to the URL at the top of the screen. But if I substitute "04/14" after 2014 without changing any of the other information after "06/20", I still arrive at my intended destination. If I go to April 14 the normal way, watch what happens to the URL.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:13, 28 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, it's not happening to me at home. I normally look at these strips where the Internet is faster, and most days that is on a Firefox computer.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:17, 28 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The # and following text is a fragment identifier. It was historically the only part of the URL that Javascript was allowed to modify (there's now a standard "history API" that can modify the rest, but many web sites still target older browsers). I don't know why the Javascript on that particular page is appending random-looking crud to the URL. -- BenRG (talk) 00:40, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I was on an Internet Explorer computer at a library and it happened there too. I was going to the gocomics.com web site and clicking on the links to the comic strips, and it did happen.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:15, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It happens to me too. I think it's deliberate. I just don't know why. The only purpose it would serve would be as a quasi-cookie that would be saved when you bookmarked the page or shared the link with someone. But even if I copy and paste the same URL with the fragment, they just replace it with a different one, so it looks as though they're ignoring it. -- BenRG (talk) 20:39, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Adding #RandomGarbage to a URL makes it unique such that local caching won't use a local copy of the page. It will force a reload of the page every time you visit it. Which, in turn, forces a reload of all the ads on the page. In the end, it is there to force advertising to refresh every time you hit the page. 209.149.115.166 (talk) 19:17, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]