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Title: Calling all language translators
Post by: Xairbusdriver on August 23, 2012, 06:59:58 PM

Here are some CSS declaration labels (and their actual CSS). These labels can be just about anything the developer wants them to be. It doesn't help that some are not even used in the marginally literate web page. I'm wondering if they come from some kind of WYSIWYG web page builder. Obviously the CSS properties are in English which I assume is what the browser needs to parse.

Here is a snippet of the CSS:

CODE

.lbylrqoxaxf { /* Class - not used */
overflow: hidden; width: 100%;
border: 0px solid white;
}

#mouiaplc { clear: both; } /* ID - used once without apparent need */

.aposwwmhbsx { /* Class - not used */
padding: 5px; border: 1px solid #330033;
margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px;
float: left;
}

#hklbrnvgtfta a:hover{ /* ID - styles the "navigation" links which are all 'dummy' links, ie; href="/" */
color: #fffcfa;
text-decoration: none;
}

#hklbrnvgtfta a { /* ID - general style for all anchors, see above */
color: #e6e6e6; margin: 0px 2px;
white-space:nowrap;
text-decoration: underline;
}

#xxrxhnl { padding: 18px; } /* ID - simply puts an 18 pixel padding/gutter/margin on the left of the page */

#rzkq { /* ID - sets the basic 'design' of the page */
background-color: #e6e6e6;
padding: 20px;
position: relative;
}

.aposwwmhbsx p {    /* Class - not used */
overflow: hidden; margin: 0px;
line-height: 110%;
white-space:nowrap;
padding: 3px 0px 0px 0px;
font-size: 10px;
width: 80px;
display: block;
}

.fbdyrzafrwr { /* Class - Used in both a list item and a div */
margin: 5px 4px 6px 3px;
padding: 10px 7px 2px 8px;
color: #333333;
display: none;
}

a:hover { /* Pseudo class that styles hovering over all anchors except the "hklbrnvgtfta" variety */
color: #333333;
font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;
}

The site (http://caprant.info/bioq8.htm) is a SCAM site for "natural" supplements that I found researching anew SCAMmer for my MailScamAlert site.
It looks to be a site registered at GoDaddy and is using privacy settings:

QUOTE

Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com LLC (R171-LRMS)
...
Registrant ID:CR118105909
Registrant Name:Registration Private
Registrant Organization:Domains By Proxy, LLC

Just chasing rabbits...

Title: Calling all language translators
Post by: tacit on August 23, 2012, 11:23:59 PM

I don't know if the CSS here was generated by a program or not, but the class names sure do make it look that way.

I can answer one riddle, though. The declaration

#mouiaplc { clear: both; }

which doesn't look like there's any need is something you'll see in a lot of CSS, with different names of course. On HTML standards-compliant browsers, it's not going to do anything, but if you code of Internet Explorer 6 and 7 you need it. It corrects a bug in Explorer that will cause the page to render incorrectly if it contains nested div tags that are set to float right or left inside the parent div. You'll often see pages put what looks like an unnecessary div styled with clear:both to work around that Explorer bug; it's something I've had to do myself.

Title: Calling all language translators
Post by: Paddy on August 24, 2012, 12:13:50 PM

I've never seen an application like Dreamweaver generate class names like that, but it could be some web-based thingy or purchased template that does it. The fact that the code is commented so thoroughly makes me wonder about the template possibility, though usually there is some attribution somewhere in the code, which I don't see.

Anyway, there is something wrong with their home page - if I click on the link you provided, Jim, or just go to "http://caprant.info" or click on the Home link from within the site, I get an internal error on all browsers. Yesterday, I got into the site by searching on "caprant + natural supplements" which provided me links to internal pages, which did work. Today, nothing works, except cached pages. Could be someone pulled them down?

Title: Calling all language translators
Post by: tacit on August 24, 2012, 02:32:29 PM

QUOTE(Paddy @ Aug 24 2012, 05:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Anyway, there is something wrong with their home page - if I click on the link you provided, Jim, or just go to "http://caprant.info" or click on the Home link from within the site, I get an internal error on all browsers. Yesterday, I got into the site by searching on "caprant + natural supplements" which provided me links to internal pages, which did work. Today, nothing works, except cached pages. Could be someone pulled them down?

I'm seeing the same 500 internal server error. That's an error generated by the Web server, not the browser. It means there's an error with a script on the page; a bug in the PHP code, an attempt to load a script with the wrong permissions, that sort of thing.

Title: Calling all language translators
Post by: Xairbusdriver on August 24, 2012, 03:33:52 PM

Kriss, there weren't any comments in the css file. I put those in there just for info.

I first thought the labels were simply words in some Eastern European language (Slavic?) but I decided they looked more like computer generated gibberish not meant for human consumption/reading.

The errors happened to me after viewing the site only once. I tacked on the path to the css file to look at that. I couldn't even get back to the original page after that, even from the Google search listing.  I did take a look at the html page source and saw that there really weren't any links to anything except the home and one other page. All the other 'links' were what I call 'dummy links' or just placeholders for one ( <a href="/"> </a> ). There wasn't even a page title! It could be that there are php (or other type) scripts that are supposed to insert the real links dynamically. But the source is very bare bones... not unlike the usefulness of the products, in my personal, humble opinion. Your milage may vary. The site would make a great example of how NOT to publish to the web.

[OT] The chemical I started searching for (BioQ8) is definitely useless, snake oil, hawked by a "doctor" who is nothing but a shyster. He have a Ph. D. conferred on him by an unaccredited college. Of course, he wants to be called "doctor" but not because he has any medical training. Well, he does have a BS in Pharmacology... I got his eight-page letter which was addressed to my deceased aunt. It was so blatantly absurd I gave up trying to link to reliable, factual info after only page two! <"Dr. Mindell"> page at http://www.mailscamalert.com/misc/mindell.html