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[coldtea]

They didn't use it because they were "poorly written", it was a "state of the art" technique back in the day.

Gmail used, others used it.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15238391/hash-params-vs-...

[bryanrasmussen → coldtea]

sure, it was state of the art back in the day, but state of the art over time depreciates to technical debt, and the ones that are left using what was once state of the art are now poorly written.

[coldtea → bryanrasmussen]

>and the ones that are left using what was once state of the art are now poorly written.

They could just be perfectly written (for their time), just legacy and not updated, is my distinction.

[bryanrasmussen → coldtea]

at some point the accretion of legacy and not fixing issues to match better understanding turns a perfectly written for its time application into a poorly written application for the present.

[threeseed → bryanrasmussen]

That doesn't give Google the right to break all those sites though.

[bryanrasmussen → threeseed]

right, I guess I should have indicated sarcasm on the I guess it's their fault part.