jquery ajax history and bookmarking plugin

javascript jquery hashchange
Aleksandar Vucetic picture Aleksandar Vucetic · Oct 22, 2009 · Viewed 7.1k times · Source

There are plugins for handling history and bookmarking like: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/history. Somehow it doesn't look as a complete solution. For example, on one page you might have a filter that consists of several checkboxes, text boxes etc. You would like your page history functionality to update all those controls and to update url when value of some of those controls is changed. With the jquery history plugin, you would have to write all that code (even parsing of the hash value from url). Is there some more complete solution for this problem?

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Alex Sexton picture Alex Sexton · Oct 22, 2009

Ben Alman has recently released a fantastic plugin to handle things related to the questions you are asking. It is called jQuery BBQ (for Back Button and Query). It has excellent documentation, full unit tests and is alot more up to date than the antiquated jQuery History plugin. I especially like the onhashchange work that he did. (5 Stars. would do business with again A+++)

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