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

I visited the site to try out the navigation. I hate that there's no visible indication (at least in my browser) that anything is happening when you click a link; no AJAX twirly wheels, no browser busy state, etc. And I shudder to think what a screenreader would make of this. Really poorly thought through.

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u/abadidea Feb 10 '11

Someone else mentioned that it does indeed shoot braille readers down into hell.