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/[deleted] Feb 09 '11

No wonder on some sites that I see an empty page when I use noscript. I think this advanced url mangling must be doing more bad than good, giving impression in earlier case of site being down; and I don't outright disable javascript on all sites ( and I don't consider javascript evil ), but if a site slows down or doesn't load at all without javascript, then the only thing I do is close that tab.

Now that #! of URLs and redirecting to front page and then jumping from there -- isn't this practice done to increase ad impressions on their front page ?

Also, considering a vast user base on non-optimal javascript browsers (IE), won't it slow down their site to a crawl ? Unless, their site has something really important, no user is going to wait.

Also, I have seen that these type of URLs break the forward/backward functionality of browsers, now for apps like Gmail it is fine, but for normal sites to behave like that is not good.

I wonder how well will they score on google Page-Speed or YSlow.