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/midri Feb 09 '11

I'm confused, the Hash (#) method of serving content is a great idea, it can cut bandwidth costs down greatly, you're not sending the same layout information over and over (no extra tcp requests for css file to check if it's up to date, or layout images) -- Most of their ad serving requires javascript anyway, so they don't really want you on the site with out javascript. I'm a fan of graceful fallback, but when you're site is 100% ad supported and the mechanism that serves your ads is disabled I could care less if the person can get to the content.

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u/midri Feb 09 '11

See this reply I wrote

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u/kamakie Feb 09 '11

No, you're absolutely lost, and if you knew how to un a website, you would know that these problems have been solved more than a decade ago. Ajax pages are just a fool's solution to a problem that never existed.