Comments on: Bookmarking Dynamic Pages

By: 3gp videos

3gp videos — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:20:34 +0000

Hi! I think .htaccess is better

By: Paul Walker

Paul Walker — Wed, 16 May 2007 09:18:56 +0000

I disagree - the first method allows people to bookmark pages the way they’re used to doing it. - It may be a hack â€” but it works… (Its also simpler)

By: JR

JR — Fri, 11 May 2007 12:49:09 +0000

I never understood why all that hype about “permalinks”… Look, a link is permanent, unless you don’t work with them properly. Therefore, we don’t need “permalinks” but to use links appropately; otherwise we are just duplicating functionality and confusing people (why should the link to a page be different to its permalink!?!”)

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:19:20 +0000

Try this: http://walk2web.com as bookmarker and surfer.

By: Maxim

Maxim — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:46:03 +0000

What could be used, if you program in ASP.NET, is to hook up an HttpHandler and manage server side this Url. This could allow you to use this technology which is called Permalink. For different types of Permalink that is used, take a look at the article on Wikipedia

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:17:41 +0000

Nice. Submitted to tweako

By: Ganeshji Marwaha

Ganeshji Marwaha — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:17:29 +0000

This might solve the bookmark problem although this has its own issue… But the common reason why “anchor links” are used is to enable “back button” functionality. That is very important from an usability perspective. Is there a cleaner solution for that, other than the “anchor link” technique.

By: Kevin Hale

Kevin Hale — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:19:55 +0000

Hey Brodie, I think it’s more like a permalink feature in blogs. What it provides is a bookmarkable link. So they technically don’t have to click the link, then bookmark it—they could just bookmark the link. Obviously, some of the issues is in conveying that…but I think it seems to work fine in Google Maps and on blogs, so it isn’t a completely new concept.

By: Brodie Rao

Brodie Rao — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:24:49 +0000

So instead of allowing the user to bookmark the page, you're saying they should first click a link that then allows them to bookmark it? I'm not quite seeing how that's acceptable; you're still breaking that functionality.

You might also want to keep scope in mind in JavaScript. The variables declared in your functions are all global. Prefixing variable declarations with the var keyword will make them local.

By: Ryan Campbell

Ryan Campbell — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:41:20 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. Should be fixed now.