Why does Twitter use a hashbang instead of using the History API?
19th February 2012
My answer to Why does Twitter use a hashbang instead of using the History API? on Quora
I asked a friend who is an engineer there about this a while ago. When they shipped the first version of Twitter that used fully Ajax driven pages there was a critical bug with pushState in a widely deployed version of Safari, which made it impractical to commit to.
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