Ajax navigation without #!

Question

I have noticed that sites like http://hypem.com which is a full ajax site have now managed to scrap their #! ajax urls but maintained a full ajax site. How is this possible?

Answer 1

You can do this with history.pushState, only in decent browsers though ;)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/Manipulating_the_browser_history

Here's a jQuery plugin with a fallback for older browsers to a hashed URL: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/history-js

Answer 2

Some modern browsers support history.pushState().

However, if you want to support older browsers that are still popular, you should use the hash fallback.