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Christ, will these websites please STOP doing this crazy hash bang shit? Its absolutely horrible from a user's perspective. You break the the URL. I don't care
by geuis 16y ago
Christ, will these websites please STOP doing this crazy hash bang shit? Its absolutely horrible from a user's perspective. You break the the URL. I don't care if Google said they can crawl it or not, they aren't your primary responsibility. Ever since the Gawker sites switched over to that awful new site design, it has not only been difficult to navigate (UI design problem, not hash bang), but simple things like the back button only work about 50% of the time.
I'll put an offer out to the community. If you guys can provide me with a list of urls for sites that use the hash-bang, and that have normal url equivalents, I'll write an extension, site, or javascript bookmarklet that auto-corrects these.
- Joakal 16y agoI removed /#!/ part in URL in OP. Went straight to article.
- shii 16y agoWhere/why/when did this trend start? I saw it first on Twitter and Facebook, then the Gawker family of sites, and now it's spreading to other media outlets like Ars here.
- uxp 16y agoFirst place I noticed it was "New" Twitter. This article was posted on HN a little while after Gawker changed their design which explains why it was implemented and why it shouldn't have to begin with: http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs/ http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashB... And it's discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2196160 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2196160