- From: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:22:56 +0000
- To: Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>
- CC: Linking Open Data <public-lod@w3.org>, Don Cruickshank <dgc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
I am really no expert - really, so showing my ignorance here. I understand: JS: window.history.replaceState('Object', 'Title', '/another-new-url'); will do it happily, but I guess HTML5 is required. You can use it to change path and search strings, but not protocol or domain, I understand. On 14 Oct 2011, at 15:26, Norman Gray wrote: > > Hugh, greetings. > > On 2011 Oct 14, at 13:08, Hugh Glaser wrote: > >> My colleague, Don Cruickshank asked me if it was good practice to rewrite the URI in the Address Bar to be the NIR, rather than the IR. >> I was surprised, but he tells me that it is permitted in HTML5. > > Can you expand on this a little? > > Is this some HTML5 cleverness that lets one declare in the HTML what the address bar should display? Or is it some Javascript kludge^Wgadget that does it, in which case what is the sense in which this is 'permitted' in HTML5 and wasn't before? > > All the best, > > Norman > > > -- > Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk > SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK > -- Hugh Glaser, Web and Internet Science Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ Work: +44 23 8059 3670, Fax: +44 23 8059 3045 Mobile: +44 75 9533 4155 , Home: +44 23 8061 5652 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~hg/
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