[OSM-dev] Addressable maps & updated URL?

[Tom Hughes]

In message <237A4ED6-1F08-4259-8533-C792E572956F at remote.org>
        Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

>>> FWIW, you should be able to safely set window.location.hash to just
>>> change the # portion of the URL, without reloading the page.
>>
>> I need to update the arguments though, not the fragment.
>
> I think then the reload is inevitable. Yahoo seem to be using that  
> (location after #), and OpenLayers folks are working on implementing  
> that as well, so maybe we afford zu just wait until they do it for  
> us ;-)

The problem with using the fragment is that we'll have to do all the
argument parsing ourselves as rails won't understand it :-(

Tom

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