Comments on: Experimental Odeo Interface

By: Michael Mahemoff

Michael Mahemoff — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 04:04:25 +0000

“What is the news here?”

I think it’s newsworthy that a well-known site is using it. Not that it’s the only one – MS Live Image Search also uses it.

The “Unique URL” technique was used with Flash sites as far back as 2001 – http://www.robertpenner.com/experiments/backbutton/backbutton.html.

By: Michael Geary

Michael Geary — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:01:58 +0000

Yeah, Brad, Safari is a tough customer, isn’t it?

I did notice the problem on Klaus’s test page where the chapter text would appear and then disappear sometimes, but I wasn’t sure if that had to do with the history/hash or if it was some unrelated glitch.

By: Tobie Langel

Tobie Langel — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:26:27 +0000

Gilles: I nearly did a while back, but decided against it in the end. There are some things I like about jQuery, but overall, it does not have the power and richness of Prototype (IMO).

By: Gilles

Gilles — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:58:59 +0000

Tobie, just switch to jQuery :)

By: Theo

Theo — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:27:49 +0000

Nice and clean implementation. This kind of thing should be something you just do, not an extra. Check out SWFAddress it's a state/history script which allows Flash applications to support permalinks, reloads and back/forward. And it works in Safari.

By: Brad Neuberg

Brad Neuberg — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:07:23 +0000

Hi Tobie and Michael, I checked out that test page on Safari and it doesn’t work consistently. The problem isn’t that you can’t sometimes get it to work in Safari; the problem is that its very inconsistent and buggy. Safari just doesn’t give you the basic machinery.

By: Tobie Langel

Tobie Langel — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:03:40 +0000

Hi Michael, thanks for the link!

Looks like it is working in Safari (a bit shaky though…)!

All I need know is a Prototype port… ;-)

I’ll look into that as soon as possible.

Great stuff.

Thanks again.

By: Brad Neuberg

Brad Neuberg — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:54:16 +0000

Hi Michael; thanks for the shout out on RSH.

Some clever hackers have figured out how to get back/forward button support on Safari, but no one to my knowledge has also figured out how to update the URL for a permalink using an anchor hask.

Best,
Brad

By: Tobie Langel

Tobie Langel — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:35:49 +0000

Unfortunately… no Safari support… looks like it really can’t be done…