- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:11:03 +0000 (UTC)
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, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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