Restoring Conventional Browser Navigation to AJAX Applications

This article was result of my experience in developing Rich Internet application. It is depiction of my fight against the pitfalls of AJAX application. User is happy if you give him a better usability and performance but he is not aware about the underline technologies. If all of the sudden the default browser navigation stops to work in the desired fashion, user will start to panic. The developer starts getting issues like my back button is not working, clicking refresh lost my work done, so and so forth. The first reaction of developer is this is AJAX world and it act this way only, what can I do? Then we have to look for the ways of supporting default browser navigation in AJAX world. There are few hacks for providing supporting for default browser’s navigation using javascript but AJAX provide more systematic way of doing this. In my article I will explain how to use DOJO history APIs to cope up with one of the pitfall of AJAX application.
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