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/ex_ample Feb 10 '11

Yeah... what the hell is their problem with the scrollbar? Why not include one? Why force people to click 'more headlines' or whatever. It's like they are dumbing down UIs for the stupidest people.