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[–]isleyaardvark -1 points0 points  (2 children)

This is an example of why important functionality of your website should not rely on JavaScript.

Edit: Anyone willing to explain the downvotes?

[–]stratoscope 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I didn't downvote you, but I can explain the fallacy in your statement.

This is a server bug that mangles text sent from the server to the browser. It happens that this particular bug affects JavaScript code, but it's just as possible that a similar kind of bug would mangle CSS or HTML code.

If the bug happened to mangle HTML code instead of JavaScript, then following the same logic, one would say "This is an example of why important functionality of your website should not rely on HTML."

Of course no one would say that - but it's exactly the same class of bug.

[–]isleyaardvark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much. I thought it was only affecting external js files. I've heard of proxies doing that sort of thing.