The shop was simply an example as i said in my post and I'd agree that
doing an entire store in ajax is a poor idea.
However, the technique I was after would allow the url in the title bar
to accurately reflect the state of the page, whether that's the post in
a thread you were reading or a position in a gallery of images you were
looking at.
Dave Teare wrote:
This is an example of where I think Ajax is taken too far. I see no
value in having a "pure" ajax solution for showing the product. If you
are using pretty URL's, it's no big deal to perform a "true" request
when changing products.
On DevLists I sometimes have some data (i.e. a message) embedded in a
larger page (i.e. a list of messages), and in that instance I need a
perma-link button that will redirect to a page that just shows just the
one message.
Just my $0.02.
On Tuesday, March 07, 2006, at 6:43 PM, Rob Clayburn wrote:
Hi All
Not specifically a scriptaculous question, but I was wondering how
people were going about maintaining access to their applications via
standard urls.
Say for example I've a shop at www.shop.com, and its pure ajax to load
in products. Now customer A wants to show a friend a product on the site
- giving him the url www.shop.com and telling him to click on a series
of links seems clunky. So what I'd like to do is for my ajax app (no its
not a shop thats just an example!) to change the browser's url to
www.shop.com?product=xbox - which when my site loads it'll pass this and
load in the appropriate product info.
The latter's no problem, its simply how to write to the browser's url
window that I don't know how to do (is this a server side or client site
problem ). I'm working with PHP on a Linux box with modrewrite available.
Cheers
Rob
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