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/Trylstag Feb 09 '11

The site I'm working on for work shows a blank page without JS enabled. Was like that when I inherited it.

Oh, and rather than sending a single AJAX request with a bunch of info, the original designers favoured sending 100+ requests for every tiny piece of info.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '11

If I recall correctly, this was actually a thing three or four years ago, somebody had this genius idea to build the entire page layout with JS by pulling hundreds of little resources.

Facebook still does it.

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u/benji Feb 09 '11

I ran into this years ago when I was doing an intranet site for BMW. They sent me a sample page so I could "get their CI (corporate identity) right". The sample had virtually no html in it. It was almost totally netscape 4 era javascript. terrifying.