Tag Archives: hash
location.hash is dead (on html5 browsers)
Pretty cool technique to actually change the url of the page (something until now impossible to do in Javascript for security reasons): http://badassjs.com/post/840846392/location-hash-is-dead-long-live-html5-pushstate Also good to read, the browser history MDC documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/Manipulating_the_browser_history And finally, pjax, a new script that combines the use oj Ajax calls and this technique to manipulate the url to achieve [...]
Link: Whirlpool JS
Whirlpool is a very strong hashing algorithm (one way encryption) that encodes any text into a 128 character string (popular md5 generates a 32 byte string). Looking for the JavaScript version, I had to search on my email inbox for an email I received back in October 2009 to found the link where to download [...]
Modifying the URL Hash without affecting the browser history
Although this is not very common, some times you would like to modify the URL hash (this is the value after the # on the URL) without affecting the browser history. Let’s say you have multiple sets of tabs on your page or simply that your hash is going to change very often. But still [...]
