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cylemons
2y ago
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What does the ! symbol do in url fragments?
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scq
2y ago
It was part of a scheme to make SPAs indexable by search engines. Google deprecated it back in 2015, as Googlebot can now execute JS.
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2009/10/proposal-f...
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