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Also, it would be basically impossible to host comment threads on video content if the video reset every time you submitted a comment. By comparison, Twitter's video experience is still awful in that you can't multitask and join the conversation on a video tweet.

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Thankfully, it's not en either/or situation.

The principle that site designers need to start abiding by is to not reinvent the browser--there's no need to use JS for routing or single page apps. The browser does that fantastically already. All that's needed of JS is to add asynchronicity to pages that need to update state without interrupting a running service.

Ever heard of iframes?

I really hope iframes aren’t the “right” way to do just about anything.

iframes are horrible on the back button and have a number of other UX issues that make them overall much worse than JavaScript.

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