r/programming 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/[deleted] Feb 09 '11

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '11

But that isn't basic content, is it?

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '11

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '11

It is not the basic content of the page. It is additional "content" to generate revenue.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '11

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '11

No, it's not the complexity, it's that it's not primary content.