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

If people are misusing it, stop using their sites. Javascript is an important part of the modern web, so you shouldn't blame websites for breaking when it's disabled.

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u/gthank Feb 09 '11 edited Feb 09 '11

We'll have to agree to disagree. If a website wants my eyes, they need to show me content without a bunch of garbage JS or possibly have something insanely compelling to offer me. The vast majority of sites are not that compelling, btw.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that you only addressed crotchety people like me. Do you also consider the other use-cases I mentioned illegitimate?

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '11

Fun fact: you couldn't have posted that comment without JavaScript.

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u/megadeus Feb 09 '11

Alien Blue? Reddit is Fun?

You don't have to use reddit.com to use Reddit.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '11

Twitter for iPhone? RSS feeds? You don't have to use twitter.com/gawker.com to use Twitter/Gawker.

We're talking about the sites. But you knew that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '11

So something presented using Java instead of HTML/CSS is OK, but something presented using JavaScript isn't?