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We did consider using text-to-speech to say the word out loud once you answer it, but it wouldn't be ideal to have to hear every time you wanted to unlock your phone.
And thanks for all your feedback!
We were looking into some of the canvas libraries out there but that really only becomes necessary when doing pie-charts and other non-rectangular shapes.
Though you're right it does look a bit weird, I will add a note to the instructions explaining what it is and that its not a bug or anything. Replacing it with http:// would've worked perfectly fine as well.
We use the same scheme to link to the media on our CDN so the app can switch seamlessly between http and https secured sections (account,billing) without any different <head> code
But behind the scenes how it works is that JS file (ie. usecharm.com/mmelin.js or something) returns different code depending on the cookie of the visitor and the configuration of the project. So if you launch a test, the goals and changes will come out in that file and it is also based on what page it is requested from, so the change could be different when requested from the homepage of your site vs a content page. By default it just has basic analytics stuff like referrer-detection and measuring demographics.
Do you think I should add a "behind the scenes" or similar section that explains all the technical stuff going on?