Twitter moving away from hashbang URLs
This is such good news for the web that it gets its own blog entry. According to Dan Web, an engineer at Twitter:
@timhaines plus, now I'm in charge of undoing twitters hashbang URLs I can
confirm that all the issues in that article are very real.
@danwrong x months from now (when your project completes) Twitter will no
longer use hashbangs?
@timhaines correct. All gone. It was a mistake for several reasons.
PushState or bust.
The whole conversation is here:
http://storify.com/timhaines/hashbang-conversation
Here's an excellent chapter on HTML 5 history and PushState: http://diveintohtml5.info/history.html
And in case you've forgotten, here's why hashbangs suck.
Dave Johnson
in Web Development
• 🕒 08:02AM Feb 21, 2012