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Re:Brave Search beta by jonathansampson on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @08:54PM (#27599386)
Thank you for the correction. I used to call them hash-bangs (not sure where I picked up that habit in my ~25 years of industry experience), until I started seeing more people refer to them as shebangs. Oddly enough, while reading them out I would always say "bang, <identifier>". I'll try to refer to them simply as bangs (or perhaps something like search/filter bangs) from now on
Re:Brave Search beta by BenjiWiebe on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @09:09PM (#27599509)
Because '#!' is a hash followed by a bang.
Re:Brave Search beta by jonathansampson on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @09:39PM (#27599762)
Quite obvious, but naming things is funny in the web-development world. We still call any asynchronous retrieval of data "AJAX," even though it rarely, if ever, involves XML :-)