May 2011
Hash URIs - W3C Blog
There’s been quite a bit of discussion recently about the use of hash-bang URIs
February 2011
Broken Links
Before events took this bad turn, the contract represented by a link was simple: “Here’s a string, send it off to a server and the server will figure out what it identifies and send you back a representation.”
Going Postel
It would appear that hash-bang usage is on the rise, despite the fact that it was never intended as a long-term solution. Instead, the pattern (or anti-pattern) was intended as a last resort for crawling Ajax-obfuscated content.
Breaking the Web with hash-bangs
by 1 otherThe #!-baked URL (hash-bang) syntax first came into the general web developer spotlight when Google announced a method web developers could use to allow Google to crawl Ajax-dependent websites
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