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🕙︎ - 2012-03-17

In HTML5 there is new, unprecedented access to alter the URL shown in the address-bar of the browser.

I guess it can be used for something good, and that I am just a grumpy old man.

But let's try an example. Click a URL:

And then check out the address-bar. Sweet, huh?

Man, that can be used to shoot yourself in the foot. Like, say, implementing page-loads within Javascript, because, y'now, browsers are really bad at loading pages... Viz pjax.

Don't. Break. The. Web.

🕙︎ - 2012-03-17 - 0 comments

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