While viewing the source of the SS page, I found a line that reads, “<!-- Simba says Roar. -->”. So I did a search on it, and found that a number of sites include this as well.
I was wondering if anyone knew why people do (or did) this. One thing I did notice was that on at least two of the sites that I found to include this, there was also a note that the script the page was using was from javascript.com, so maybe a lot of people just recycled this script and left the Simba line in, but on the SS site, the Simba line is outside of the script tags so I am not sure…anyone?
As jmizzou said, it’s the original programmer’s hidden signature. For those who don’t know HTML, putting words <!-- inside tags like this --> defines them as a comment. In other words, your browser won’t show them, and you won’t see them unless you look at the source code (which is what the OP was doing). A lot of javascripts have this, so that if someone copies the script, it will still have a mark from its original author contained in it.
