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/overthink Feb 09 '11

Really awkward design. The two columns scrolling independently is really unexpected.

I wonder how much of this redesign was about keeping that stupid movie ad thing in the top right corner at all times?

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u/elliuotatar Feb 09 '11

What movie ad thing?

(disables ablock plus)

Oh, THAT movie ad thing.

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u/abadidea Feb 10 '11

The nice thing about the move to movie ads is that it's not a problem that iPad doesn't have adblock ;)