Hey Vin, Well, there are "transient pages," which you should not have to bmk... And pages that should be bmkable (or refreshable, for that matter).
The issue has been discussed countless times already, although not quite on this list, as it is a non-Spinoffs-specific thing. Pulled from my archives, here are a few links that might be of interest to you, pertaining to AJAX accessibility and ergonomy in general: http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/Articles/38 (Back button) http://adactio.com/journal/959 http://particletree.com/features/the-hows-and-whys-of-degradable-ajax/ http://particletree.com/features/degradable-ajax-form-validation/ http://www.baekdal.com/articles/usability/usable-XMLHttpRequest/ The way I see it, the "best" (although a bit unsatisfactory) way is to provide clear, standing-out "Refresh" links (e.g. eBay on bid pads) and "Bookmark this!" links (e.g. Google Maps on specific views) ; so your server side has a URL (de)serialization mechanism in place that can encode a transient state and use the resulting URL to restore it later. 'HTH -- Christophe Porteneuve a.k.a. TDD "[They] did not know it was impossible, so they did it." --Mark Twain Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
