Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page

Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by bryanrasmussen on Friday February 15, 2019 @06:47AM (#19170095)

lots of older or poorly written SPAs use the hash exactly in this way. I guess their fault for being poorly written, like those people who allowed GET requests to /deleteaccount based on the theory that you had to be logged in with a browser for it to ever happen and not considering that google would make an extension that did all get requests on a page on entry.

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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by coldtea on Friday February 15, 2019 @06:56AM (#19170138)

They didn't use it because they were "poorly written", it was a "state of the art" technique back in the day.

Gmail used, others used it.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15238391/hash-params-vs-...

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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by bryanrasmussen on Friday February 15, 2019 @07:36AM (#19170342)

sure, it was state of the art back in the day, but state of the art over time depreciates to technical debt, and the ones that are left using what was once state of the art are now poorly written.

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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by coldtea on Friday February 15, 2019 @08:22AM (#19170668)

>and the ones that are left using what was once state of the art are now poorly written.

They could just be perfectly written (for their time), just legacy and not updated, is my distinction.

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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by bryanrasmussen on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:32AM (#19172194)

at some point the accretion of legacy and not fixing issues to match better understanding turns a perfectly written for its time application into a poorly written application for the present.

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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by threeseed on Friday February 15, 2019 @09:33AM (#19171177)

That doesn't give Google the right to break all those sites though.

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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by bryanrasmussen on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:33AM (#19172202)

right, I guess I should have indicated sarcasm on the I guess it's their fault part.

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