February 2011
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What's really important about hashbangs -- #! #...
Recently, a few large sites have been redesigned to use a #! separator in their url structure, notably twitter and the entire gawker suite. In short, it lets them serve their entire site as one single HTML page with a chunk of javascript, and the browser handles loading the actual content of the page from the string after the #! separator. This has been causing a fairly loud uproar in the internet...