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I wanted to read this, but the styling of the website cuts diagonally across the content on my tablet in portrait mode.

It makes the article unreadable...

Punchline, http: is a label; // and everything following is a comment.

More like an anecdote then

Yeah, in retrospect, I'm slightly embarrassed for even clicking on it.

Yes, but do you know how long it took us to get CSS to this stage so that it could draw arbitrary shapes???