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Ajax Back, Forward, Reload and PHP
IdaAshley writes "A major challenge of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax)-driven Web sites is the lack of a Back button. Mike Brittain discusses ways to get around this obstacle in part 1 of the 'Developing PHP the Ajax way' series." From the article: "The Web is a page-by-page medium. The backward and forward buttons on your browser's toolbar direct the browser from page to page. When Macromedia's Flash became all of the rage, developers and users started to see how Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) break this metaphor. You might click around a few sites, land on a Flash-based Web site, then click around in it for a few minutes. One click of the Back button and the ride is over. Rather than going one step backward within the Flash site, you completely lose your place."
No, C. Most people think it was named after C. Everett Koop, but they're mistaken.
Doesn't work all that well. I navigated the site a bit and forgot all about why I was there because it's so pretty... then I remembered, tried the back and forward buttons and the problems started. Blank pages, pages with just the pretty background image and no menu/content. Inconsistencies when going back and forth multiple times. Finally I was stuck in black page mode. Music played throughout though.