Iisolani provides a thorough dissectin of how these new-fangled #! urls you are seeing all over the newest sites on the web are prone to breaking both the web experience and a site itself. I think I see a hint of “we-know-better” from the developers rushing out these new sites and re-designs. HT: Jason Lefkowitz
Gawker, like Twitter before it, built their new site to be totally dependent on JavaScript, even down to the page URLs. The JavaScript failed to load, so no content appeared, and every URL on the page was broken. In terms of site brittleness, Gawker’s new implementation got turned up to 11.