Hi,
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Hendy Irawan <he...@soluvas.com> wrote: > I wonder if Wicket 6/7 has or planned for good history API support, i.e. > navigable ajax updates a la Twitter/Facebook? > It will be very useful if we extract use cases for this functionality. > > If not then I'd like to propose... It'd make Wicket not only very relevant > but a breakthrough in a *post*-HTML5 world. > > [~mgrigorov] responded: > > > Do you know of a good JS History library ? > > All I have tried have issues for different browsers. > > What I ever used is Backbone. Which is a great all around library. > > Snippet from http://backbonejs.org/#Router : > > <blockquote> > Web applications often provide linkable, bookmarkable, shareable URLs for > important locations in the app. Until recently, hash fragments (#page) were > used to provide these permalinks, but with the arrival of the History API, > it's now possible to use standard URLs (/page). Backbone.Router provides > methods for routing client-side pages, and connecting them to actions and > events. For browsers which don't yet support the History API, the Router > handles graceful fallback and transparent translation to the fragment > version of the URL. > </blockquote> > > Breadcrumb components would benefit greatly from History API support (and > is > probably its main use case). > > Although any parameterizable page will benefit from this. For example > we're > developing an analytics app so the parameters include date range, > precision, > and selected sections. Those can be encoded in URI. Although while > selecting > these things we immediately perform AJAX updates, with bookmarkable URI > it'd > great. So the page stays "stateless" instead of stateful. Just like how > Google Analytics does it. > > History API libraries include: > > 1. http://backbonejs.org/#Router > 2. https://github.com/browserstate/history.js/ The second one is one of those which I have tried and didn't like. It behaved differently than native History API. http://tkyk.github.io/jquery-history-plugin/ - this is the one we use in our app at the moment but its maintainer stopped supporting it. > > > I also created a ticket at > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-5290 I think there is a ticket about this already. > > > Hendy > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-wicket.1842946.n4.nabble.com/Wicket7-History-API-support-for-navigable-AJAX-pages-components-tp4660502.html > Sent from the Forum for Wicket Core developers mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. >
