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Feb 10, 2011 / 11:04pm

Javascript: Breaking the Web with hash-bangs

All non-browser user-agents (crawlers, aggregators, spiders, indexers) that completely support both HTTP/1.1 and the URL specification (RFC 2396, for example) cannot crawl any Lifehacker or Gawker content. Except Googlebot.

Hashbang URL's (#!) are breaking the web. Recently Gawker Media websites (such as Gizmodo) joined Twitter in using them. The post provides good technical explanation why it's a short sighted and dangerous idea.