Website cleanup: remove dead code and update security issues

slarson · claude · slarson · commit a9dfd4fee41d · 2026-01-31T14:24:33.000+01:00
- Remove dead Google+ widget from index.html (service discontinued 2019)
- Remove obsolete html5shim references from 16 HTML files (IE6-8 polyfill returning 404)
- Fix section ID typo in news.html (June2024 -&gt; June2025)
- Update Twitter widget URLs from HTTP to HTTPS across all pages
- Update YouTube embed, js-grid CDN, and OpenWorm domain links to HTTPS
- Update footer-content.html and header-content.html with HTTPS links
- Remove compromised WormClassroom link from science.html resources

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
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 				    <h4>Chapter 1: A brief introduction to C. elegans</h4>
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@@ -206,9 +202,6 @@ <h2 class="title">Computational Neuroscience Meeting 2013</h2>
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 									<h2 class="title">OpenWorm Paris Meet-up</h2>
 									<p class="desc">Falstaff, Paris, France</p>
-									<ul>
-										<li style="width:50%;"><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c9na0de60ctltl97m39oo7h3bqs"><span class="fa fa-globe"></span> Website</a></li>
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 									<h2 class="title">Guest Lecture: Introduction to OpenWorm</h2>
 									<p class="desc">Speaker: Matteo Cantarelli. Host: Daniele Giusto - Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University Of Cagliari, Italy</p>
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 									<p class="desc">The Eagle, Cambridge, UK</p>
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 									<p class="desc">Queens Head & Artichoke, London, UK</p>
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 		&middot;
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-		<a href="http://docs.openworm.org/faq" target="_blank">FAQ</a>
+		<a href="https://docs.openworm.org/faq" target="_blank">FAQ</a>
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 	    incorporated in July 2015.
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-	    Code licensed under <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT" target="_blank">MIT</a>, documentation
-	    under <a target="_blank" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" target="_blank">CC BY
+	    Code licensed under <a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT" target="_blank">MIT</a>, documentation
+	    under <a target="_blank" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" target="_blank">CC BY
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 	    <li><a class="minilogo" rel="tooltip" data-placement="right"
                    data-original-title='"What I cannot create, I do not understand" - R. Feynman'></a>
 	    </li>
-	    <li><a href="http://browser.openworm.org" target="wormbrowser"> Explore the Worm</a></li>
+	    <li><a href="https://browser.openworm.org" target="wormbrowser"> Explore the Worm</a></li>
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 			    <a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-url="http://www.openworm.org/"
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-          <section id="June2024">
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               <h1>June 2025</h1>
 
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+		<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://js-grid.com/css/jsgrid.min.css" />
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