There's been a lot of discussion this week about the "hashbang", that ugly little bit you find in the middle of URLs like this one: http://twitter.com/#!/ded/status/18308450276. I wanted to provide a rebuttal to the arguments that the hashbang is bad for the Web, based on a lot of discussions we've been having inside Twitter since the #newtwitter project began last summer ...
Included in the laundry list of new features that are descending on the world of web development with HTML5 are two quite nice ones: History Management and the hashchange event. These two features allow for much richer and faster JavaScript applications. Let's start with a quick overview of what these provide.
This event is quite simple. Whenever the window.location.hash property changes, by following a ...
Take a look at this web site. Notice anything out of the ordinary. Hopefully you don't, none of the layout or styling has changed noticeably recently. However, try a "View Source". Now do you see something different? This page is now rendered with the following doctype:
<!DOCTYPE html>
That's right, this web site is now HTML5! In fact it even validates as HTML5 successfully! If you ...