Edward Yarnold

I’m a fairly regular user of the twitter web front-end, and of Facebook. Both of these have tremendously wide audiences and are hugely popular. Twitter recently attracted a bit of negative press from the technical community for replacing the old, fairly standard URL structure with one that uses ‘hashbangs’ and is fully dependent upon Javascript to serve the correct content. But I’ve another more user-centred complaint about Twitter (and Facebook) relying heavily on Javascript for fundamental parts of their apps (e.g. the ability to tweet, and ability to comment on stuff). That is the removal of the ability to ‘refresh’ or ‘resubmit’ a request…
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