Comments on: History Keeper – Deep Linking in Flash & JavaScript

By: 75 (Really) Useful JavaScript Techniques - Internet Business

75 (Really) Useful JavaScript Techniques - Internet Business — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:44:19 +0000

[…] History Keeper unFocus History Keeper is a JavaScript based library for managing browser history (back button) and providing support for deep linking for Flash and Ajax applications. It enables back button support, for client-side applications, has a hash-based deep linking (Anchor Style – index.html#foo=bar) and is event-driven – Subscriber pattern. Currently the script works well in all modern browsers. […]

By: ExternalInterface bug (Firefox) | Richard Leggett

ExternalInterface bug (Firefox) | Richard Leggett — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:33:50 +0000

[…] it greatly simplifies the communication between Flash and Javascript and works very well with unFocus HistoryKeeper (for back/forward button nav in […]

By: 75 (Really) Useful JavaScript Techniques | PSDSir

75 (Really) Useful JavaScript Techniques | PSDSir — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:55:31 +0000

[…] History KeeperunFocus History Keeper is a JavaScript based library for managing browser history (back button) and providing support for deep linking for Flash and Ajax applications. It enables back button support, for client-side applications, has a hash-based deep linking (Anchor Style – index.html#foo=bar) and is event-driven – Subscriber pattern. Currently the script works well in all modern browsers. […]

By: Deep Linking in Shockwave Director – Director Diaries

Deep Linking in Shockwave Director – Director Diaries — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:53:45 +0000

[…] an exemplary implementation of deep-linking in Director. In the following example we will use the unFocus History Keeper library, and especially the script called unFocus-History-p.js. This script will manage the browser […]

By: Kevin Newman

Kevin Newman — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:12:32 +0000

@ Gustavo

I’ve tried it both ways – it’s more consistent if dispatches immediately Just make sure you store your current value locally, and check it in your listener. There are browser quirks that’ll cause this to fire at any rate, so it’s important to check the incoming value against your current state. You should probably also be filtering the URL data, to make sure it’s the same when it does come back from the browser (each of which encode special characters differently – ugh). At this point, I’ve actually been recommending alternative frameworks to history keeper, I just haven’t been on top of maintaining it, and there are some vital tools missing from the stack (like a URL filtering/cleaning tool, and some kind of state manager). Have a look at jQuery BBQ as a good alternative.

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:17:25 +0000

Hi friends, it is possible that the addHistory() method don’t call the historyListener() method when a new entry is added?

thanks so much

By: All my bookmarks ever

All my bookmarks ever — Wed, 11 May 2011 07:00:59 +0000

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By: itsnotbob

itsnotbob — Tue, 10 May 2011 23:47:20 +0000

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for replying. Yes, I’ve been looking at History.js & see what it’s doing. And when I get the time I’ll try running against the unpacked scripts & see what I can come up with as well; maybe we’ll get lucky 😉

By: Kevin Newman

Kevin Newman — Tue, 10 May 2011 20:25:41 +0000

In reply to itsnotbob.

I vaguely remember something about a problem with using this inside of an iframe. I’d bet it simply will not work (hk creates it’s own iframe via javascript behind the scenes – stuff like that tends to make IE freak out). I’ll see if I can find some time to mess with it – but it seems I never do. 🙁

By: itsnotbob

itsnotbob — Mon, 09 May 2011 22:02:51 +0000

Hi Kevin,

Great work; thanks for sharing it with us. I am curious: have you tried using this inside an iframe? I’m having an issue with IE (what else is new?) whereby when you click the back button the iframe’s location will replace the parent’s location.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated; thanks!

By: Kevin Newman

Kevin Newman — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:02:27 +0000

In reply to cb. I would need to see an example to comment on your particular implementation.

By: cb

cb — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:24:41 +0000

Ißve got the scritp running, when I click on a link the info is stored, when I go back and foward the address bar changes but the page in the browser does not change. Any idea? Thanks!

By: Kevin Newman

Kevin Newman — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:50:14 +0000

In reply to padalton.

I have one in the works, but so much has changed since I started it – I think I’ll just publish it in a rough state, and be done. I’ll try to get to that over Christmas break.

Eventually, I’ll write a tut for the new HTML5 history/deep link stuff (once I figure out how it works, which I will do for an upcoming project).

By: padalton

padalton — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:53:04 +0000

hy!
Are there any howto or install instructions?

By: Habilitar el botón volver del navegador en aplicaciones AJAX « Zarkiel Program's – Programación y más…

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 04:00:09 +0000

[…] History Keeper. No utiliza ninguna librería. […]

By: Krishna

Krishna — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:26:00 +0000

How can I store dropdown array values in the history? If I do, I see everything on the URL. Is there a way to mask the values with a key or something like that? I’d very much appreciate your help!

By: オフィシャルサイトで使った技術その１ « TheDesignium

オフィシャルサイトで使った技術その１ « TheDesignium — Tue, 25 May 2010 07:59:28 +0000

[…] [JS]イベントhistoryの設置とアンカー制御 Javascriptを使えば各要素にClickやdomreadyなどの特定のイベントをトリガーとして扱うことができますが、今回オフィシャルサイトではunfocus projectsで公開されているHistory Keeperを使って、特定のイベントとしてHistoryを追加してみました。 […]

By: Kevin Newman

Kevin Newman — Fri, 07 May 2010 03:54:49 +0000

I have made progress. It’s half in WP, and half in an AS file. The as file is currently in SVN, and contains most of the good stuff. You can find that here, in the inline comments:

http://code.google.com/p/unfocus-history-keeper/source/browse/trunk/tests/HistoryKeeperSwf.as

Getting that finished, and posted is on my short-list, for right after I finish this huge months long project I’ve been working on. One day that’ll be finished (in like 2 months!)

By: tim102289

tim102289 — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:02:17 +0000

any progress on some type of tutorial on implementing History Keeper? or do you know of anyone else who has compiled some type of guide/tutorial? i really like what ive seen so far with it and would be very interested in implementing it in my own flash website, but im still pretty much a beginner with flash and js, but experience with html.

By: Kevin Newman

Kevin Newman — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:17:52 +0000

In reply to Uresh. I think I'm missing context for that last comment. Do you have a more complete example?