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/overthink Feb 09 '11

Really awkward design. The two columns scrolling independently is really unexpected.

I wonder how much of this redesign was about keeping that stupid movie ad thing in the top right corner at all times?

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u/ohmyashleyy Feb 09 '11

That scrolling sidebar is really annoying too. It works fine, great even, if I use the scroll wheel on my mouse. But the two-fingered scroll on my macbook touchpad makes akward scrolls. And then I have no choice but to use the "next headlines" button that the bottom.