As long as it pretends that it has multiple pages, I don’t see the harm. Not re-fetching and re-rendering navigation elements is a good thing, and you don’t have to break the back button, address bar, and so on to do it.
Honestly, there should probably be a standard HTML attribute that tells the browser that internal links will always send this element in the same way and it should not be re-rendered.
So is google banning single page applications or just the malicious behavior described? Hate when their announcements are so cryptic
Single page application should be blocked. Give me real links.
As long as it pretends that it has multiple pages, I don’t see the harm. Not re-fetching and re-rendering navigation elements is a good thing, and you don’t have to break the back button, address bar, and so on to do it.
Honestly, there should probably be a standard HTML attribute that tells the browser that internal links will always send this element in the same way and it should not be re-rendered.
It’s called “frames” and we’ve had them for years. I feel like there’s a meme template that would fit this…
Frames absolutely obliterate the back button and address bar, though.