And to expand a little on what mbreese said, the basic, fundamental idea behind the URL is for a client to indicate to a server what resource it's trying to acc

And to expand a little on what mbreese said, the basic, fundamental idea behind the URL is for a client to indicate to a server what resource it's trying to access. So it's totally broken by that #!. http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashB... is a great article.