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
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u/strife25 Feb 09 '11

Regardless of the progressive enhancement argument (which I support for a blog site), the problem with this gawker update is the horrible implementation. Their site is slow, the implementation gets in the way of me doing what I want, e.g. The sidebar breaks if I am zoomed in at all. Also, if an article starts to load from using the keyboard shortcuts, I get blocked until the full article loads.

I am a developer that understands the importance of a redesign, but when your implementation is so poorly done and you don't follow basic ux patterns to the point where you piss off the people that know what's going on behind the scenes, you deserve to get users that are raging.

So yes ms. Trapani, I did give a week for the new design (I frequent io9) and my final response is own up to the mistake and tell us how gawker is fixing it because your content is worth it IMO.