Browse AJAX Site Using Anchor

[vunet]

I've been thinking about how AJAX sites implement page browsing when
in fact the whole site is on one page. I know I may store page content
in array and add new content to this array as user clicks AJAX driven
links for the purpose of browsing history, etc. But what if I want to
share the page with somebody and AJAXed site always starts with the
main page.
I thought using anchor is the solution: www.mysite.com/#showHelpPage.
JavaScript would detect the URL and show the page according to anchor
(call showHelpPage page in my case). I would like to hea some thoughts
if possible and other consideration for this solution. Perhaps,
examples? Thanks.

[T.J. Crowder]

On Mar 13, 5:53 pm, vunet <[e-mail]:

I've been thinking about how AJAX sites implement page browsing when
in fact the whole site is on one page. I know I may store page content
in array and add new content to this array as user clicks AJAX driven
links for the purpose of browsing history, etc. But what if I want to
share the page with somebody and AJAXed site always starts with the
main page.
I thought using anchor is the solution:www.mysite.com/#showHelpPage.
JavaScript would detect the URL and show the page according to anchor
(call showHelpPage page in my case). I would like to hea some thoughts
if possible and other consideration for this solution. Perhaps,
examples? Thanks.

On some level, you may be reinventing the wheel:
http://code.google.com/p/reallysimplehistory/
--
T.J. Crowder
tj / crowder software / com

[shawn]

You might as well throw in a flash intro screen and have all your
content as images-- do you plan on having search engines crawl / list
your site? Or does it degrade gracefully w/o javascript?

Shawn