I thought it was cool

[Daniel T]

I just spent the last hour and a half perfecting this little number, which will make no sense at all to you (atleast, upon first glance, it won't. hopefully). Can you figure it out?

Content without a source (http://www.thenamesdan.com/wtf/)

PS: I've already let Ben in on it, so Ben, you can't answer.

[Stephen Philbin]

Without actually looking at the source, I'd say you include a javascript file that either writes the content directly or it uses the XMLhttprequest object.

[Daniel T]

Nope.

[Stephen Philbin]

Altered the external subset to add the content on parsing.

[Sup3rkirby]

My Guess:

Something to do with either PHP or some server-side code that writes the page.

[theuedimaster]

If php wrote the page, it would show in the source.

[Mausau2000]

A java file running it????
I've seen things simular... that use java..

[Jupac]

Your hacking us while we look at the source

[Mausau2000]

Your hacking us while we look at the source
What???

[PeOfEo]

Without actually looking at the source, I'd say you include a javascript file that either writes the content directly or it uses the XMLhttprequest object.

var p = new XMLHttpRequest();

?

edit: However, the content is still accessible with js disabled. So therefore the js file really has nothing to do with it.

[sparq]

Sorry, im not cool enough :p

[jeff_archer7]

I know what it is, and your a very naughty boy...

you may even go blind

[Sup3rkirby]

well maybe not php, but possibly some server side script of some sort that writes the page when it loads.....

but still, just a guess

Also, the address is not an address to a webpage.... (.htm or .html or .anything)
The address points to a folder.... this goes along with my suspicion.....

[Jupac]

nope its http://www.thenamesdan.com/wtf/index.php

[Jeff Mott]

My guess would be... the style.css file is actually a PHP script that returns text/css data. And that you've found some clever way to differentiate between the browser requesting this file as a result of the @import command versus requesting it via the address bar. If it's accessed via @import then the PHP script returns the full set of styles (for the browser to process), but if it's accessed through the address bar then it returns a stripped down CSS document so the user can't see anything.

[Jupac]

o yea i think dan showed me this before i think

[Mausau2000]

is it a special thing only firefox can do???

[Mausau2000]

I know what it is, and your a very naughty boy...

you may even go blind
What is it?
Ie goes to index.html automaticly does firefox do that? :confused:

[BeachSide]

I must admit that you had me there for a second. Nice little trick. I'll have to keep it in mind!

::Edit:: Was I not supposed to post that? I mean this thread died since I posted showing the code! If I "spoiled" it sorry that wasn't my intent :o

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

argh i cant even see it, im not home and only have IE

[Sanim]

I was going to say he had

content: "Lalala.";

in his CSS, but apparently not, since it doesn't show up in the CSS file!!

[BeachSide]

It is in the css you just don't see it.

I posted the relevant code up earlier but like I said the thread died so I felt bad :( lol

I'll post it up again if you want me to.

[tinkerbell]

very nice...thanks for shariing

[Jowka]

ohhhh im interested now, how do you do it?!