Bookmark: Fix back button and enable bookmarking in AJAX applications

Based on a technique used to fix a similar issue in Flash, Mike Stenhouse over at Content with Style put together a solution for Fixing the Back Button and Enabling Bookmarking for AJAX Apps.

Published June 15, 2005 · Updated September 17, 2005
Categorized as JavaScript
Short URL: https://snook.ca/s/375

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Oliver said on June 18, 2005

That is very intuitive. I wonder though, how would it work for Flash? It won't be as simple as adding an anchor to the end of the url.

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Mike Stenhouse said on June 24, 2005

Hiya. I came across your link in my logs...

I'd love to see this ported back to Flash. I reckon that you'd need to modify the doGetPage method to send a JS call into the Flash app, and you'd have to send your bookmarks from the app to a PageLocator object to store the state in the url bar... My Flash days are behind me though!

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Ryan Gallagher said on February 27, 2006

That....is awesome. I love it. Knew it could be done(Gmail), but i wanted somewhere to find out how to do it. Excellent.

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riper said on June 16, 2007

hi, i found a full ajax website, and the back button works : http://itbreaks.net

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