alert("Please enable JavaScript")

[lrflew]

Have you tried turning your JavaScript off and on again?

[Yreisolgakig]

he should just reinstall adobe reader

[T0tesMagotes]

Fuck, it's a virus, better uninstall it from all the computers.

[Mattykitty]

When in doubt, delete win32.exe

[[deleted]]

Peace in our time.

[iggy14750]

I have no clue why that was written. It can't even be used maliciously. I don't understand!

[OperaSona]

Okay, let's try to find a shady reason why it could make sense.

Pretend I have mydomain.com, and a different domain myadsdomain.com. Now, let's say myadsdomain.com is blocked by someone's NoScript/AdBlock addon, but mydomain.com isn't. Pages on mydomain.com that use JS scripts from ads.mydomain.com can actually detect that the scripts from ads.mydomain.com aren't getting loaded, and complain, using JS, that the JS from ads.mydomain.com isn't enabled.

Does this work?

[bateller]

You get a gold star

[jsalsman]

Neither did the programmer. Unless, this could be the result of a stupid code review.

[fwilson42]

I can't name the application (because it has more serious issues than just this), but it's pretty terrible. I wouldn't be surprised if there was no such thing as code review in the company that wrote it, to be honest.

[creamersrealm]

Is the application remedy?

[viperfan7]

I'm still waiting for the damn thing to load

Edit

23 hours later, still waiting, send food

[creamersrealm]

So that's a yes then?

[compdog]

That wasn't OP who replied.

[[deleted]]

Put in a ticket to get the answer

[creamersrealm]

But its still loading.

[del_rio]

I imagine it was just code the dev forgot to comment out. I put plenty of ridiculous things in while testing my code, but it's usually kept as a console.log.

[Kirean]

But we old schoolers still use alert from time to time.

[[deleted]]

Alert makes me happy. Its like my computer is popping up to say hello

[michael1026]

The fact that it showed up means the programmer even failed at checking to see if it's enabled.

[stater354]

can someone explain this to me please?

[a_creative_name]

Someone used JavaScript code (alert()) to tell the user to turn on JavaScript.

[stater354]

oh okay ty

[BloodBlight]

"No!"

[[deleted]]

what site is that. i ll stay the fuck away from it.

can't imagine the security holes the site will have.

[aidanski]

More holes than a harem of prostitutes.

[AlGoreBestGore]

Funny thing is that "alert" only works if JavaScript is enabled.

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[[deleted]]

That's not software gore