Doing links like Twitter, Hash-Bang #! URL’s [duplicate]

“Hash-Bang” navigation, as it’s sometimes called, … http://example.com/path/to/#!/some-ajax-state …is a temporary solution for a temporary problem that is quickly becoming a non-issue thanks to modern browser standards. In all likelihood, Twitter will phase it out, as Facebook is already doing. It is the combination of several concepts… In the past, a link served two purposes: … Read more

What’s the shebang/hashbang (#!) in Facebook and new Twitter URLs for?

This technique is now deprecated. This used to tell Google how to index the page. https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/ This technique has mostly been supplanted by the ability to use the JavaScript History API that was introduced alongside HTML5. For a URL like www.example.com/ajax.html#!key=value, Google will check the URL www.example.com/ajax.html?_escaped_fragment_=key=value to fetch a non-AJAX version of the contents.