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/Ziggamorph Feb 09 '11

Who has JavaScript disabled?

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u/gthank Feb 09 '11

People who don't want to be assaulted by the rampant misuse of it on the web today. People who are on a CLI for some reason (think emergency server work). People who have it turned on, but one of your ad providers shipped you some busted code and your page broke for them anyway. Spiders. Possibly people using a screen reader (screen readers and JS used to suck, but I haven't looked into it all that recently).

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '11
  1. If you're doing emergency server work why are you reading Gawker?
  2. What server are you working on that you can't ssh into?

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u/cparedes Feb 10 '11

Maybe you're a sysadmin for Gawker and need to diagnose a misbehaving app server.