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Breaking the Web with hash-bangs. Mike Davies explains why Gawker’s new Ajax fragment-tastic redesign is a web architecture error of colossal proportions.

Posted 9th February 2011 at 2:17 am

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30 comments

  1. Ugh. They could have waited a year and implemented HTML5 pushState/replaceState/popState. Or heck, they could have done it now but fallen back to regular HTTP requests for browsers that don't support it. They could have kept their real URLs. Hash anchor URLs are a fantastically horrible idea.

    Mark Jaquith - 9th February 2011 04:14 - #

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  3. Cool. I directly changed a new products away from the hashbang syntax and to html5 pushState.

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  4. Gawker can get bent. After the password debacle nobody should have anything to do with them and thus this should be entirely un-noticed.

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