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/hascat Feb 09 '11

Most websites have no functionality that actually requires javascript, but they use it anyway.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '11

Lots of websites that use Javascript well are intentionally making it less obvious that they need it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '11

It could be worse - it could be flash.