[whatwg] Some likeness of DOM Session scope

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Brad Neuberg wrote:
>
> Something along these lines that would be useful is control over what 
> goes into the history (and what affects the back button) and what 
> _doesn't_.  Alot of times I shoot off RPC type functions using 
> XmlHttpRequest that I _dont_ want in the history, since they wouldnt be 
> appropriate for the back button, and other times I want the back button 
> to be affected.

Ok, I recently added something to the spec that should help with this. 
Namely, the window.history.pushState() method and the onpopstate="" event 
handler.

   http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-session

The spec is a bit terse right now, but it should address what you 
mentioned. I'm sure we'll write more developer-friendly docs in due 
course (like, when it's more stable!).

HTH,
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