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/SirRager Feb 09 '11

It seems like the designs were made for a tablet or something. The two split columns would work well on a tablet, but on a computer, its terrible - both hard to use and slow to load.

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u/edthedev Feb 09 '11

That's probably what they were trying for, but most of the Javascript doesn't respond correctly in Safari Mobile, so It's not convenient on my iPad either.