Example.com Just Launched the Biggest Redesign in Decades

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/example-dot-com-redesign-history

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sajithdilshan•27m ago

What would have been nice is that depending on the visitors IP address’s region, showing a localised message instead of fixed number of languages

Cidan•21m ago

I think the whole point is for it to be a static site that is easily distributed with little-to-no overhead, as it probably receives a non-trivial amount of traffic.

zahrevsky•5m ago

Yep, that's exactly their reasoning:

> As it tends to be heavily trafficked, the overall bandwidth is a key consideration

Waterluvian•16m ago

This feels like a “falsehood developers think about localization.”

It’s always funny when I get French YouTube ads. As if YouTube is desperately trying to offload the adbuys anywhere they can by pretending that Canada must mean French.

erhuve•13m ago

I believe it's just using the official languages of the UN

int0x29•6m ago

Just check the Accept-Language header

chews•23m ago

it's nice, and it surprised me when I saw the redesign.... I use it to navigate into captive wifi portals that always seem to be misconfigured.

hidelooktropic•22m ago

It's down?

jamdav16•21m ago

> there's a gradual opacity transition

Looks like they removed this and instead just show all languages with no CSS animation now.

Lightbody•10m ago

I’m curious… who hosts and controls this content? IANA? Never really considered this question until now…

zahrevsky•7m ago

> There is no requirement there is a HTTP service present on the host in order to fulfill its purpose, we just operate it as a courtesy.

I guess this is also done to prevent bad actors from abusing the fact that this domain is hit by people who might not know what they're doing (the ones copy-pasting code without reading it)

monskov•6m ago

who's job was it to make incremental stylesheet changes on example.com in the 2010s?

Gualdrapo•5m ago

> Along with introducing multi-language support, the JavaScript code also inserts an SVG book icon.

Wait - using JS for dynamic content is understandable, but why using it for inserting a static SVG?