jQuery History Plugin works in Chrome?

Question

The jQuery History Plugin (http://www.mikage.to/jquery/jquery_history.html) is said to work with Chrome:

http://github.com/tkyk/jquery-history-plugin

Supported Browsers IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox3, Safari4, Safari5, Chrome4, and Chrome5

but then when i go to the top link mentioned above, if I click on load 1, load 2, and then load 3, the back button will change the URL's hash portion to #2, but the "Loaded html:" section still shows "3"… anybody know why?

Answer 1

The version used by that demo page is not the same as the github version.

Answer 2

Go here for a current sample page: http://www.serpere.info/jquery-history-plugin/samples/

It works in Chrome ;) As Pointy, well, points out, the code on that page isn't current, there are several changes/fixes in GitHub since then. You can get the latest source here.

Note that the API changed (for the better I think) since that old page, for example:

• $.historyInit is now $.history.init
• $.historyLoad is now $.history.load
• etc, see a full list of changes in this commit

Answer 3

Perhaps try this jQuery History plugin: http://www.balupton.com/sandbox/jquery-history/demo/ It provides cross browser support, binding to hashes, overloading hashes, all the rest.

There is also a Ajax extension for it, allowing it to easily upgrade your webpage into a proper Ajax application: http://www.balupton.com/sandbox/jquery-ajaxy/demo/

This is the solution chosen by such sites as http://wbhomes.com.au/ and http://gatesonline.com.au/stage/public/

Overall it is well documented, supported and feature rich. It's also won a bounty question here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3205900/how-to-show-ajax-requests-in-url/3276206#3276206