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Disclaimer: this post is intended to be humorous and the techniques described in this post are not recommend for use for any website that wishes to keep visitors.

I’ve been waiting for a chance to play with the HTML5 History APIs since seeing it on Google’s 20thingsilearned.com. After reading Dive into HTML5’s take on the History API today (thanks to a pointer by Mark Trapp), I finally came up with a great way to play around with the API.

Teaser: it turns out that this API can be used for evil on WebKit browsers. I’ll get to that after the fun part.

I’ve been updating Gri.pe to the latest versions of the various libraries we use and ran into some trouble while attempting to update GWT to 2.2. There were some incompatible bytecode changes made: the classes in the com.google.gwt.core.ext.typeinfo package were converted to interfaces. Java has a special invoke opcode for interface types, so the classes would fail to load with this obscure error when the verifier tried to load the classes:

java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: Found interface com.google.gwt.core.ext.typeinfo.JClassType, but class was expected

This is an expanded version of my answer on Quora to the question “You’ve used both AWS and GAE for startups: do they scale equally well in terms of availability and transaction volume?”: