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Old 12-23-2006, 11:14 PM   #1 (permalink)
megabyte
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Fixing the Back Button and Enabling Bookmarking for AJAX Apps

Everyone's favourite AJAX technology app is Google Maps. Google have done a stunning job... But when I came to try to bookmark a page I had to hunt around for 'link to this page' over on the right hand side. Why have they broken such a basic function of the web? I use bookmarks A LOT and the extra effort bothered me. I got over it though, and life went on.

Then I came to flick through the drop down on Kottke.org (now removed) and I kept hitting the back button on my mouse by accident, taking me off the site. Really irritating. The most fundamental online behaviour - click then back, is broken. Read More....
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