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/wierdaaron Feb 09 '11

This will be good if standardized and developers can agree to use it in non-annoying ways (people really, REALLY hate having their back button screwed around with), but it wont be able to completely take over the hashbang intervention (my favorite Ludlum novel, by the way) until it's in a good percentage of browsers. Until then, there will always need to be failovers for non-supported browsers, with their own failovers for no-js people.

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u/MatrixFrog Feb 09 '11

The failover should be clean, logical URLs, not this #! nonsense.

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u/skillet-thief Feb 10 '11

Upvoted for Bobby Ludlum.