Basically, you can't change the URL in the address bar with
javascript. This is something you should always take into account
when you use partial page reloading (ajax) for navigation. I've seen
some workarounds for increasing bookmarkability of ajax based apps by
encoding page state in anchors (you can redirect to the same page
with a different anchor to get some data into the URL bar but not
have the page reload) but it isn't for the faint-hearted...
Tom Riley
<http://www.smallroomsoftware.com>
On 8 Mar 2006, at 01:07, Rob Clayburn wrote:
The shop was simply an example as i said in my post and I'd agree
that doing an entire store in ajax is a poor idea.
However, the technique I was after would allow the url in the title
bar to accurately reflect the state of the page, whether that's the
post in a thread you were reading or a position in a gallery of
images you were looking at.
Dave Teare wrote:
This is an example of where I think Ajax is taken too far. I see
no value in having a "pure" ajax solution for showing the
product. If you are using pretty URL's, it's no big deal to
perform a "true" request when changing products.
On DevLists I sometimes have some data (i.e. a message) embedded
in a larger page (i.e. a list of messages), and in that instance
I need a perma-link button that will redirect to a page that just
shows just the one message.
Just my $0.02.
On Tuesday, March 07, 2006, at 6:43 PM, Rob Clayburn wrote:
Hi All
Not specifically a scriptaculous question, but I was wondering how
people were going about maintaining access to their applications via
standard urls.
Say for example I've a shop at www.shop.com, and its pure ajax to
load
in products. Now customer A wants to show a friend a product on
the site
- giving him the url www.shop.com and telling him to click on a
series
of links seems clunky. So what I'd like to do is for my ajax app
(no its
not a shop thats just an example!) to change the browser's url to
www.shop.com?product=xbox - which when my site loads it'll pass
this and
load in the appropriate product info.
The latter's no problem, its simply how to write to the browser's
url
window that I don't know how to do (is this a server side or
client site
problem ). I'm working with PHP on a Linux box with modrewrite
available.
Cheers
Rob
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