On Wednesday 25 May 2011 04:24:11 Brian E. Lozier wrote:
Yes, you use fragments on the end of the url, like:
You can change it all you want and it doesn't do a reload of the page. Check sites like digg.com, click their "next page" button and you will see it in action.
IMO, that's a bit of a hack, abusing named anchors which are supposed to simply target a specific area of a given page, not cause different content to be loaded. e.g. http://myapp.com/#foo and http://myapp.com/#bar should serve up the same content, but the browser should scroll to the appropriate anchor. Maybe I'm just being old-school (damn kids, get off my lawn) -- David Precious ("bigpresh") http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ "Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life". (Michael Sinz)