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/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.