Using Bookmarks with jQuery Address

Question

I am using jQuery's Address plugin (website) to enable the back/forward buttons on my website. I would REALLY like to also have the ability for people to bookmark pages and to copy the address from the address bar and share it with friends. Address claims it can do this, so then what am I doing wrong.

My code is

function BackButton() {
 $.address.change(function(event) {
  // do something depending on the event.value property, e.g.
  // $('#content').load(event.value + '.xml');
 });
 $('a').click(function() {
   $.address.value($(this).attr('href').replace(/^#/, ''));
 });
}

BackButton() is then called on every AJAX pageload to ensure it works with the pages loaded by ajax.

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

looks like you copied directly from the example at the plugin's website. your address.change function does nothing, there are only two commented lines in there.

Answer 2

So I used

if ( $.address.value() !== "\/" ) {
    window.location = "http://www.domainname.com/" + $.address.value()
}

to redirect the user to the correct page.

So is this correct? Or are their problems with it?
What would be the benefits of using the $.address.init function of jQuery.Address?

Also this forces them to wait until the page (&javascript) is loaded to see any content. comments?