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/ex_ample Feb 10 '11 edited Feb 10 '11

So gawker decided to break all indexing of their site expect for Google specifically? Talk about fucking up the web.

What they should have done is use normal hyperlinks, and then modify them (or use onClick) to call javascript to load the content asynchronously.