[Gllug] Routers and more importantly, Javascript

[Doug Winter]

On Tue 18 Nov Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> Speaking of Javascript, can someone explain to me why so many sites
> used Javascript instead of standard anchors?  By way of an example,
> www.allmusic.com, has fabulous content but it's really tedious to use
> because you can't open a link in a new tab or window.  You also can't
> copy and paste their URLs or bookmark a sub-page.  (well, I've found
> you can do the last two, with a bit of trickery well beyond the
> average user)
> 
> I'd like to know why anyone would cripple their site in such a way?

Me too.  Allmusic is excellent, but the unbookmarkability makes it
really irritating.  I expect it's just incompetence myself.

doug.

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