[Seaside] Enable Browser Back Button with AJAX-Scriptaculous

[dirk newbold]

Thanks Boris


On 8/31/07, Boris Popov <boris at deepcovelabs.com> wrote:
>
> That's the one of a few key reasons YUI Browser History Manager exists,
>
> http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/history/
>
> Quote: Client-side changes to a web page's content and structure are not
> recorded by the browser's history engine. As a consequence, the
> navigation buttons (back/forward) we've learned to use as we traverse
> the World Wide Web of documents don't usually serve us well when we
> begin exploring the World Wide Web of applications. Bookmarking, too, is
> problematic in web applications, as the application can change state
> hundreds of times through the course of a session without any change to
> the original document's URL. These are significant problems in the
> current paradigm of web application development.
>
> -Boris
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:seaside-
> > bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of dirk newbold
> > Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 3:53 PM
> > To: Seaside - general discussion
> > Subject: [Seaside] Enable Browser Back Button with AJAX-Scriptaculous
> >
> > Hi All - Newbie Question,
> >
> > I've the classic Header, Fixed Left & Right Sidebar with Liquid Center
> and
> > Footer which I had originally developed without Sciptaculous.
> >
> > Upon learning Scriptaculous I've redeveloped the entire site with AJAX
> so
> > that the Header, Two Side Bars and Footer are not continually
> rerendered,
> > but I've just realised that the browser's back button is now rendered
> > useless as the url stays constant.
> >
> > How do I get the url to act as before so that the user can scroll back
> > through their past nav using their browsers back button?  Navigation
> > through the site has been achieved through the use of onClick: (html
> > updater id: 'xxx'; callback: [ ]), so if that is the wrong approach
> please
> > let me know.
> >
> > Sorry if this has been posted previously but my seaside vocab wasn't
> > accurate enough.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Dirk
> >
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