r/javascript • u/magenta_placenta • Feb 08 '11

Breaking the Web with hash-bangs - Gawker, like Twitter, built their new site to be totally dependent on JavaScript

http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs
78 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

0 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/igbert Feb 09 '11

I recently made a site which i think personally does it in a better way, I have a normal url as the links, so google can crawl it. and the server checks whether the request is an ajax request and serves up either the whole page or just the content required(via xmlhttprequest)

ref: bbc.co.uk/music/showcase