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Thoughts on the Hashbang

There’s been a lot of discussion this week about the “hashbang”, that ugly little bit you find in the middle of URLs like this one: http://twitter.com/#!/ded/status/18308450276. I wanted to provide a rebuttal to the arguments that the hashbang is bad for the Web, based on a lot of discussions we’ve been having inside Twitter since the #newtwitter project began last summer, and have continued...

Saner HTML5 History Management

Hashchange

This event is quite simple. Whenever the window.location.hash property changes, by following a link, setting the property, editing the URL bar, or ...