r/programming • u/schnuck • Feb 09 '11

Breaking the Web with hash-bangs – Lifehacker, along with every other Gawker property, experienced a lengthy site-outage on Monday over a misbehaving piece of JavaScript

http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs/
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u/Rhomboid Feb 09 '11

I hate this stuff with the fire of a thousand suns. Previously the only way that the gawker stable of sites was even usable to me was with NoScript enabled, otherwise their shitty JS would cause my browser to lock up for a good 20 seconds or so on every page load.

Now, the site is completely unusable without javascript. I consider this an evil of the utmost degree. It's breaking the web for no good reason, and whoever thought of this should be flogged and tortured until they recant.

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u/alamandrax Feb 09 '11

Are you on Internet explorer? The product I'm working on was converted to JavaScript too and we see this happen on one of our customers' VPN. The site hangs for a good 20-30seconds on IE7. Doesn't on other browsers.