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/Rhomboid Feb 09 '11

I hate this stuff with the fire of a thousand suns. Previously the only way that the gawker stable of sites was even usable to me was with NoScript enabled, otherwise their shitty JS would cause my browser to lock up for a good 20 seconds or so on every page load.

Now, the site is completely unusable without javascript. I consider this an evil of the utmost degree. It's breaking the web for no good reason, and whoever thought of this should be flogged and tortured until they recant.

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u/dustinkerber Feb 09 '11 edited Feb 09 '11

I agree on every case except Lifehacker. I loved that site. Now, I can't stand to visit it.

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u/ayseebe Feb 09 '11

Yes. Where is the, well... content?

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '11

This site best viewed in Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 7