Comments on: Fun with Fragment Identifiers http://softwareas.com/fun-with-fragment-identifiers Mahemoff's Podcast/Blog - Web, Programming, Usability from the Author of 'Ajax Design Patterns' (AjaxPatterns.org) Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:36:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Jake Long http://softwareas.com/fun-with-fragment-identifiers/comment-page-1#comment-418071 Jake Long Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:04:26 +0000 http://softwareas.com/?p=520#comment-418071 <p>Appreciate the good write-up on what I would agree has been an under-utilized tool. I've used fragment identifiers with good effect to facilitate what I'd character as rudimentary cross-domain communication while integrating a 3rd party video service into a relatively closed CMS platform.</p> <p>As for Nathar's question, I haven't run into any window.location.hash compatibility issues with IE6/IE7 and all versions of Safari and Firefox.</p> Appreciate the good write-up on what I would agree has been an under-utilized tool. I’ve used fragment identifiers with good effect to facilitate what I’d character as rudimentary cross-domain communication while integrating a 3rd party video service into a relatively closed CMS platform.

As for Nathar’s question, I haven’t run into any window.location.hash compatibility issues with IE6/IE7 and all versions of Safari and Firefox.

]]> By: Hawksworx » Blog Archive » Mashing up flickr in the client with jQuery http://softwareas.com/fun-with-fragment-identifiers/comment-page-1#comment-417559 Hawksworx » Blog Archive » Mashing up flickr in the client with jQuery Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:24:57 +0000 http://softwareas.com/?p=520#comment-417559 <p>[...] Manipulating and interrogating the frag id can be useful in Ajax applications as my colleague Michael Mahemoff explained recently. When the page loads, it looks for a tag stored in the frag id as its starting point. That means [...]</p> [...] Manipulating and interrogating the frag id can be useful in Ajax applications as my colleague Michael Mahemoff explained recently. When the page loads, it looks for a tag stored in the frag id as its starting point. That means [...]

]]> By: Nathar Leichoz http://softwareas.com/fun-with-fragment-identifiers/comment-page-1#comment-417297 Nathar Leichoz Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:14:55 +0000 http://softwareas.com/?p=520#comment-417297 <p>For the record and for solicitation of advice, when I tried porting our web app to Safari 1, 2 when it first came out, we found that our use of fragments didn't work. Safari sometimes fails to register a change in fragment. It works fine in Safari 3. Do you have any stats of whether it is supported in older Firefoxes and older IEs?</p> For the record and for solicitation of advice, when I tried porting our web app to Safari 1, 2 when it first came out, we found that our use of fragments didn’t work. Safari sometimes fails to register a change in fragment. It works fine in Safari 3. Do you have any stats of whether it is supported in older Firefoxes and older IEs?

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