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by udp 5127 days ago
I still don't understand why Twitter doesn't use that where available.
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scott_w 5127 days ago
Because when Twitter started, pushState wasn't available to them. It will take time to transition over, and to fully deprecate hash bangs.

(Hash Bangs were still the wrong way to do it of course, even back then).

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orta 5127 days ago
They are working on that right now: http://engineering.twitter.com/
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pooriaazimi 5127 days ago
FYI, GitHub uses it extensively in their source browser: https://github.com/blog/760-the-tree-slider
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