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Re:Random defendant outlawyers P2P attorney, gets lawsuit to... by geuis on Friday February 25, 2011 @10:36PM (#2264795)
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.

Re:Random defendant outlawyers P2P attorney, gets lawsuit to... by shii on Friday February 25, 2011 @11:22PM (#2264862)
Where/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.
Re:Random defendant outlawyers P2P attorney, gets lawsuit to... by uxp on Saturday February 26, 2011 @12:58AM (#2264990)
First 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/BreakingTheWebWithHashB...

And it's discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2196160

Re:Random defendant outlawyers P2P attorney, gets lawsuit to... by Joakal on Friday February 25, 2011 @11:08PM (#2264846)
I removed /#!/ part in URL in OP. Went straight to article.