Question

Is there a framework around that supports dynamic (DHTML/AJAX/AHAH/JS/etc) page “permalinks” or bookmarks?

I’m looking for something that will support:

• Wiring frames/actions/code to page anchors
• Processing on-page clicks on anchor links
• Processing external clicks on anchor links (e.g. from a bookmark, on page load)

An example would be

http://mysite.com/user/something#favourites

Or as seen in an app like GMail, where each message or page has a permanent URL, as managed by the URL anchor.

Answer 1

The YUI browser history module does this, and the lite version may also do this.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/history/