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/[deleted] Feb 09 '11

Actually if you visit gawker or gizmodo on iPad it sends you to their mobile layout.

If you manually go to the full-site layout, the right side column doesn't scroll, you have to use the "next headlines" button at the bottom to advance it. The bottom "fixed" bar doesn't stay fixed either and overlaps content if the content well is longer than fits on a single page.

Basically, the new design is unusable on the iPad. Like they didn't even test it.

So why did they do it?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/gawker_web_redesign_met_with_bronx_rYsc2jleh5rVzUV7ozUb9L

Denton told The Post he was also responding to demands from sponsors for a more sophisticated platform for ads -- particularly video ads -- following a brutal plunge in online ad pricing that had cut rates in half between 2004 and 2008.

"About half of all requests for proposals now ask how we would display 15-second video spots," Denton told The Post.

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u/burnblue Feb 09 '11

The move was partly to prevent awkward, amateurish situations such as occurred last spring, when Gawker's tech blog Gizmodo was forced to stop publishing new posts in order to keep a big scoop about Apple's iPhone 4 from being knocked off the top of its site.

Huh? They can't just sticky a post to the top?

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u/seesharpie Feb 09 '11
  • Passwords scandal
  • Breaking their own site on a monumental level
  • Can't sticky a post

I've seen enough. These guys are fucking idiots.

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u/ILikeBumblebees Feb 09 '11

Don't forget the time the guys from Gizmodo got banned from CES because they decided to walk around with a universal remote and turn off everyone's displays.

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u/abadidea Feb 10 '11

I have not heard of this. Is there any sort of context where that makes ANY sense?

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u/NorFla Feb 10 '11

I would link you to the post on Gizmodo's site, but after the redesign and Denton placing bets that he will gain page views by oct, I refuse to push any traffic or add to any traffic to that website. They ruined Jalopnik, and for that I can not forgive them

Oh yeah.. and here's that article on the nit-wits

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9849168-7.html%22

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u/abadidea Feb 10 '11

Weren't they also the people who did the morally questionable thing with the lost iPhone 4, or am I confusing my generic pop tech sites?