Example.com Just Launched the Biggest Redesign in Decades

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

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sajithdilshan•42m 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•36m 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•20m ago

Yep, that's exactly their reasoning:

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

Waterluvian•31m 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•28m ago

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

sajithdilshan•13m ago

Interesting, didn’t know that. Also I would have expected German and Hindi to be official UN languages given the number of native speakers in the world

int0x29•21m ago

Just check the Accept-Language header

chews•38m 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•37m ago

It's down?

jamdav16•36m ago

> there's a gradual opacity transition

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

Lightbody•25m ago

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

zahrevsky•22m 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)

jgx0•11m ago

Yeah there’s definitely a lot of sensitive data that gets sent to the domain just because of people not changing configs

monskov•21m ago

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

Gualdrapo•20m 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?

afavour•13m ago

Simple answer is the article is wrong, I tried it with disabled JS and still see the SVG.

The whole article reads like something put together with AI, so maybe it’s not too surprising.

slipfold•19m ago

Here is some context: https://kimdavies.com/being-exemplary

sea-gold•10m ago

Discussed here a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915060

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