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Amazon's HTML code has a DUCK that says MEOW (2016)

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If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and meows like a cat... well, 2/3 ain't bad.

Does that mean that it fails at duck typing?

Push it to production anyway, we'll call it a 'feature'.

5/7 would clone repo again

...and the new BBC news site has this pop up in the console:

B B C NEWS

Hi there! Do you want to help build a fast and accessible web experience used by over 300 million people around the world each month? We're hiring people for all sorts of roles. Head on over to http://careerssearch.bbc.co.uk/ (search for "News") to find out more!

Which we have all seen before, but they do CSS in the console for the B B C News 'banner' which I have not worked out how to do yet.

Styling console output with CSS:

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/cons...

in chrome, click the link in the console next to it that says `init.js:1` and then click the `{}` at the bottom to pretty print the file - it should take you to around line 210 and show you the whole console line which will show you how its done. More information here: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/cons...

Huh, interesting. There's been an HTML comment saying 'MEOW' at the bottom of Amazon pages for a long time[1], but I've never seen the duck-say version!

[1] Here's a mention from 2010, but I suspect it goes back much further than that: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/azljs/til_am...

Another interesting case: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015TG12Q/ref=sa_menu_kdx...

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...for anyone who doesn't fancy looking through nearly twenty thousand (!) lines of markup and JavaScript.

Shorteners are poor form on HN. Yours looks like this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015TG12Q/ref=sa_menu_kdx... so it doesn't take up much space on the page even if it's really long.

Ah didn't know that, thanks!

I see what you did there.

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