Fixing the Back Button and Enabling Bookmarking for AJAX Apps
One of the problems revealed with AJAX app, is the problem of Back Button and Bookmarking. Mike Stenhouse have written a nice post explaining how to fix this two problems. A demo of his work is available here.
Everyone's favourite AJAX technology app is Google Maps. Google have done a stunning job... But when I came to try to bookmark a page and I had to hunt around for 'link to this page' over on the right hand side. Why have they broken such a basic function of the web? I use bookmarks A LOT and the extra effort bothered me. I got over it though, and life went on.
Mike added anchor # in Url so with every change you can have a different anchor to bookmark and also to naviguate ! The idea is so simple that could be integrated easily in AJAX current implementations.
You can read the full article here, or download the code from here.
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