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[Nelson Menezes]

2009/10/18 Nelson Menezes <flying.mushroom at gmail.com>:
> [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa155133.aspx
> [2] http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/treeview/dynamic_tree.html

Oops, sorry, I meant to give a couple of examples (above) of existing
approaches to maintain user UI state. [1] involves page refresh so it
has the flickering problem, and [2] is custom-built data over AJAX,
which is neither bookmarkable nor easy to implement. You could add
other variants of [2] that are bookmarkable (e.g. Gmail) but all
involve a custom, complex, server-and-client framework. Of course,
there's also framesets/iframes, but that also requires server content
tailored for this interface -- and it breaks bookmarking.

Nelson Menezes
http://fittopage.org