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    Mike Davies on hashbangs.

    What’s the problem?

    The main problem is that LifeHacker URLs now don’t map to actual content. Well, every URL references the LifeHacker homepage. If you are lucky enough to have the JavaScript running successfully, the homepage then triggers off several Ajax requests to render the page, hopefully with the desired content showing up at some point.

    Far more complicated than a simple URL, far more error prone, and far brittler.

    Ben Ward pulls no punches about the “#!”.

    Let’s get something very clear: Hash-bang URLs are shit. They’re ugly, brittle and a furious hack in the absence of anything else.

    Tim Bray (who you might remember as one of the inventors of XML and Atom) doesn’t like the proliferation of hashbangs (#!), either.

    There is no piece of dynamic AJAXy magic that requires beating the Web to a bloody pulp with a sharp-edged hashbang. Please stop doing it.

    Ben Ward put it succinctly.

    The truth is that if site content doesn’t load through curl it’s broken.

    Please use real URLs. That hashbang nonsense is not good for any of us.

    Jon Udell of The Elmcity Calendar Curation Project on how to think like the web.

    1. Be the authoritative source for your own data
    2. Pass by reference not by value
    3. Know the difference between structured and unstructured data
    4. Create and adopt disciplined naming conventions
    5. Push your data to the widest appropriate scope
    6. Participate in pub/sub networks as both a publisher and a subscriber
    7. Reuse components and services

    RT @drewtoothpaste: I met someone today with an MFA in creative writing! He was modest enough not to mention it, but I could tell by the ...

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    RT @mislav: Pretty RFC is progressing nicely http://pretty-rfc.herokuapp.com/

    But I still can't reformat most of them since source files aren't ava ...