Ahh, I stand corrected. This is what I get for only reading half the article.
Yeah, sucky problem. I guess we'll have to wait for Firefox 5 and IE 10 to have support for hashtags in referrals.
EDIT: My point still stands that Google shouldn't be beholden to others for their technological/business decisions. Though of if it's deliberate it certainly tightrope-walks the "Don't be Evil" line.
Hashtags in referrals will not happen. That would break a great deal of things, considering an unencoded "#" in the URL is not expected by nearly any server side scripting language. It would probably be treated as part of last GET parameter.
Yeah, sucky problem. I guess we'll have to wait for Firefox 5 and IE 10 to have support for hashtags in referrals.
EDIT: My point still stands that Google shouldn't be beholden to others for their technological/business decisions. Though of if it's deliberate it certainly tightrope-walks the "Don't be Evil" line.