How we built the new BBC Homepage • Hacker News Board

Re: How we built the new BBC Homepage

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Post by shrikant » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 8:14 AM UTC

thejosh wrote: post #10

mattbessey wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its not intercepting Cmnd+Click (mac)

Linux / Chrome middle clicking doesn't work. How can they break something so basic?

Also not working on Windows 7 / Chrome.

Re: How we built the new BBC Homepage

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Post by sklogic » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 8:21 AM UTC

The new BBC page is barely usable. Not to mention that the new BBC android app is thoroughly disgusting. Bring back the old one, please!!!

Re: How we built the new BBC Homepage

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Post by weavie » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 8:29 AM UTC

They mention using BEM (https://bem.info/) Any idea what it is? The site is not at all clear.

Re: How we built the new BBC Homepage

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Post by clarkdave » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 8:40 AM UTC

Domenic_S wrote: post #3

Tons of tech buzzwords, yet the blog intercepts middle-clicks. I want to open your links in a new tab so I can read them when I'm done with your blog!

It's not just the blog - news.bbc.co.uk also intercepts middle clicks to external sites. Middle clicks on links to other bbc.co.uk pages work fine though.

Is it an accident or intentional? Anyone know?

Re: How we built the new BBC Homepage

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 8:41 AM UTC

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Re: How we built the new BBC Homepage

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Post by confiscate » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 8:41 AM UTC

wow you use nodejs. how amazing that is

Re: How we built the new BBC Homepage

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Post by alexcason » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 8:43 AM UTC

There seems to be some kind of bird theme going on with their CSS classes.

  class="distinct-component-group container-buzzard"
  class="distinct-component-group container-pigeon"
  class="distinct-component-group container-macaw"
  class="robin sparrow-container"
  class="sparrow-container sparrow-columns"

Re: How we built the new BBC Homepage

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Post by blowski » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 8:43 AM UTC

sklogic wrote: post #12

The new BBC page is barely usable. Not to mention that the new BBC android app is thoroughly disgusting. Bring back the old one, please!!!

I believe there is a bot that monitors websites for changes, and whenever they change enough it posts randomly generated strings along the lines of:

> The new design is terrible! Bring back the old one!

Whether it recognises the irony that it also moaned about the 'old one' when that came out, I'm not sure.

Re: How we built the new BBC Homepage

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Post by yalooze » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 8:51 AM UTC

weavie wrote: post #13

They mention using BEM ( https://bem.info/ ) Any idea what it is? The site is not at all clear.

CSSWizardy say it better than me: "BEM – meaning block, element, modifier – is a front-end naming methodology thought up by the guys at Yandex. It is a smart way of naming your CSS classes to give them more transparency and meaning to other developers. They are far more strict and informative, which makes the BEM naming convention ideal for teams of developers on larger projects that might last a while." http://csswizardry.com/2013/01/mindbemding-getting-your-head...

But basically: agreed rules for how to name and format css to make it maintainable and performant in big projects.

Re: How we built the new BBC Homepage

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Post by smegel » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 8:52 AM UTC

I wonder to what extent they are still using Perl.