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That was heuristics. It looked for the text "more" or "next" or "->" within an anchor tag. Sometimes it would be fooled if a forum thread or other link had a
by vikingerik 6mo ago
That was heuristics. It looked for the text "more" or "next" or "->" within an anchor tag. Sometimes it would be fooled if a forum thread or other link had a title containing one of those words.
- mananaysiempre 6mo agoHeurisrics augmenting a (half-)standard[1,2,3] that, in a more idealistic time, some people cared enough to follow: <link rel="prev"> et al. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Attributes/rel https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/... [2] https://microformats.org/wiki/existing-rel-values#HTML5_link_type_extensions https://microformats.org/wiki/existing-rel-values#HTML5_link... [3] https://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relations.xml https://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relatio...