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Dan Webb
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Dan Webb's personal blog at danwebb.net covers programming and web. Since 2007, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “It's About The Hashbangs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dan Webb's 2011 post on why hashbang URLs are a problem, including the extra round trip per request. Also linked for his 2006 Low Pro JavaScript project.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The personal site of Dan Webb aka @danwrong.
Most-linked posts?
- It's About The Hashbangs4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-05-31
What Hacker News says?
The actual URL for the informative blog post is this: http://danwebb.net/2011/5/28/it-is-about-the-hashbangs The linked blog post only contains some relatively meaningless Twitter messages and the hyperlink as text, not as an actual link. One of the things the post doesn't mention (it's sort of implicit in "going under the radar") is that with hash bangs, every request has double the round trip time to retrieve the…
Comment linking /2011/5/28/it-is-about-the-hashbangs
on “Twitter to move away from Hashbangs”Submitted It's About The Hashbangs as a story · 83 points
HN discussionThis is probably the best articulated post on why hash-based URLs suck: http://danwebb.net/2011/5/28/it-is-about-the-hashbangs
Comment linking /2011/5/28/it-is-about-the-hashbangs
on “Backbone.js 0.5.0 Released (with pushState)”Submitted Its About The Hashbangs as a story · 82 points
HN discussionDan Webb invented this in 2006, it's called Low Pro: http://www.danwebb.net/2006/9/3/low-pro-unobtrusive-scriptin...
Comment linking /2006/9/3/low-pro-unobtrusive-scripting-for-prototype
on “Jaml: Haml in Javascript”Submitted It's About The Hashbangs as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Event Delegation Made Easy in Jquery as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's About The Hashbangs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's About The Hashbangs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The No Shit Guide To Supporting OpenID In Your Applications as a story · 1 points
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