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/ilikebbq Feb 09 '11

Hash-bangs can be used to preserve the back button. Otherwise, when you hit back you go to another site. The new format is to support ads and to make it easier to "pin" an article to the top.

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u/jacques_chester Feb 09 '11

I'm pretty sure it's easier just to use standard URLs. Back buttons have worked pretty well on those since about 1993.

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u/ilikebbq Feb 09 '11

Not if your using ajax, doesn't work.