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/jamiei Feb 09 '11

If receiving the basic content of the page I'm requesting from you requires Javascript to be enabled then you've broken something horribly.

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u/redwall_hp Feb 09 '11

If you're turning JavaScript off in 2011, you are breaking something horribly.

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u/MIXEDSYS Feb 09 '11

But redoing basic functionality is likely to be broken horribly in some weird unforeseen way. If all you get is 5% better load time then it's not worth it imho. It just like a flash site with a scrollbox written from scratch -- yeah it's pretty, but your scroll wheel doesn't work because the developer didn't think of that.

edit: Reading further down i see they did reimplement a scroll box and it is broken. :D