Oops, I think I misread you. I thought you were talking about how hashbangs break the sharability of links, but you were really speaking about how Gawkmedia broke it. I'm not terribly familiar with their site.
...when the only clear case in favour of hashbangs (that I've heard of) is infinite scrolling
That's the first time I've heard them associated with infinite scrolling, but perhaps I've missed something.
The hash-bang idea is just about making ajax-y navigation URLs crawlable by spiders.
It's just an extension of the standard hash (without the bang) where the "url fragment" (everything after the hash) is used in AJAX applications to preserve the user's ability to bookmark and use the back & forth button on their browser.
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Oops, I think I misread you. I thought you were talking about how hashbangs break the sharability of links, but you were really speaking about how Gawkmedia broke it. I'm not terribly familiar with their site.
...when the only clear case in favour of hashbangs (that I've heard of) is infinite scrolling
That's the first time I've heard them associated with infinite scrolling, but perhaps I've missed something.
The hash-bang idea is just about making ajax-y navigation URLs crawlable by spiders.
It's just an extension of the standard hash (without the bang) where the "url fragment" (everything after the hash) is used in AJAX applications to preserve the user's ability to bookmark and use the back & forth button on their browser.