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0 pointsaaronpk14y ago0 comments

The problem is that Twitter broke links to tweet pages by using the #! URL structure. Now you can't load a tweet page without loading the entire app. That's bad.

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marknutter14y ago

They'll move to pushState and all will be well. Hash-bang URLs were just a necessary stopgap solutions until more browsers supported pushState.

TazeTSchnitzel14y ago

I would like to think so, but they haven't yet. They don't even load any page content, so that you don't get URLs like http://twitter.com/stuff/1234/things#!/different/stuff

icebraining14y ago

No version of IE - not even IE9 - supports pushState. Nor does the Android browser, for that matter.

http://caniuse.com/history

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pstjean14y ago

If you would like to think so, let me give you a reason to do so: http://www.2ality.com/2012/02/twitter-pushstate.html

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