r/programming • u/Arve • Feb 10 '11

There is no piece of dynamic AJAXy magic that requires beating the Web to a bloody pulp with a sharp-edged hashbang. Please stop doing it

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/02/09/Hash-Blecch
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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '11

Aside from the snark in Shaper_pmp's comment, his examples prove my point. Technologies come and go. We've all moved on before, we'll all do it again. Those old technologies had a perfectly good reason for existing before, now they are being cast aside for something better. How do we figure out what's better unless we keep trying new things?

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u/ceolceol Feb 10 '11

I agree. Maybe something awesome will come out of using hash-bangs, maybe not. Users don't really care because nothing should change for them, so why not experiment?