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Hashbang urls probably don't make sense for a blog like Gawker is using them for, because maintaining link history and being indexable are pretty much the most

Hashbang urls probably don't make sense for a blog like Gawker is using them for, because maintaining link history and being indexable are pretty much the most important things for a blog. But they DO Make sense for rich, desktop-like javascript applications that don't want any page refreshes but would like to preserve states that people can bookmark for later (and that want the browser's back button to work for). I've heard a lot of FUDD surrounding hash-bangs, but no real convincing arguments why they're so evil. The argument will be moot once the majority of the internet community upgrades to modern browsers, which is not too far off.

diamondhead 15y ago
I agree with this comment. There some web apps with no backend, like the games providing a hashbang url like "#!/game/1" for each session, storing the data on the browser. No backend means, we need to pick index.html as 404 page (I never prefer this way), to implement same thing without hashbangs. And there is no explonation for these kind of apps, in this blog entry.
dave1010uk 15y ago
IE9 does not support the History API, nor does the current platform preview of IE10. Microsoft have quite a bit of time to get features into IE10 and I really hope the History API is one of them. I there was a bug tracking this for IE9 but it got closed. Not sure if there's one for IE10. While IE's market share is decreasing, I believe it will be a long time before > 90% of users are not on IE 6-9.
- jahmed 15y ago
  Well 44% of users already dont use IE, so that day long since passed. http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/05/web-browser-market-share-upgrade-analysis.ars http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/05/web-browser-market-s...
  - dave1010uk 15y ago
    44% of people currently not on IE 6 to 9 is under half way to the 90% I was refering to. Not sure what you mean by "that day long since passed".

diamondhead 15y ago

I agree with this comment. There some web apps with no backend, like the games providing a hashbang url like "#!/game/1" for each session, storing the data on the browser. No backend means, we need to pick index.html as 404 page (I never prefer this way), to implement same thing without hashbangs. And there is no explonation for these kind of apps, in this blog entry.

dave1010uk 15y ago

IE9 does not support the History API, nor does the current platform preview of IE10. Microsoft have quite a bit of time to get features into IE10 and I really hope the History API is one of them. I there was a bug tracking this for IE9 but it got closed. Not sure if there's one for IE10. While IE's market share is decreasing, I believe it will be a long time before > 90% of users are not on IE 6-9.

jahmed 15y ago
Well 44% of users already dont use IE, so that day long since passed. http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/05/web-browser-market-share-upgrade-analysis.ars http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/05/web-browser-market-s...
- dave1010uk 15y ago
  44% of people currently not on IE 6 to 9 is under half way to the 90% I was refering to. Not sure what you mean by "that day long since passed".