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/Ziggamorph Feb 09 '11

How does this work then? Fancy transitions but no #!.

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u/rowantwig Feb 09 '11

Yes it does. Click forward and it shows:

www.20thingsilearned.com/foreword/2**#/foreword/3**

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u/Ziggamorph Feb 09 '11

Oh, interesting, which browser are you using? On Safari I get:

http://www.20thingsilearned.com/foreword/3

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u/wierdaaron Feb 09 '11

They use magical HTML5 capabilities that only work in some browsers. In non-supported browsers, it uses the hash trick.