[whatwg] <a onlyreplace>

Tab Atkins Jr. jackalmage at gmail.com
Sun Oct 18 07:06:51 PDT 2009


On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Nelson Menezes
<flying.mushroom at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/10/17 Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc>:
>> In fact, you don't even need to use pushState. For now this can be
>> faked using onhashchange and fragment identifier tricks. It's
>> certainly not as elegant as pushState (that is, after all, why
>> pushState was added), but it's something that can be tried today.
>
> Well, here's a badly-hacked-together solution that emulates this behaviour...
>
> I think it'll be helpful even if it only gets used in a JS library as
> you mention (change the attribute to a classname then). Still, it can
> be made to work with today's browsers:
>
> http://test.fittopage.org/page1.php

Awesome, Nelson!  Seems to work pretty cool!

I'll hack on it a bit today, see if I can make it a bit more featureful.

~TJ


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