- 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
>
>
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