History manipulation... by Martijn Coppoolse

History manipulation [Discuss]

By: Martijn Coppoolse Voorburg, NL
Date: Apr 28,2016 at 14:52
In Response to: Strange webpage behaviour (Peter Shute)

> > No idea about Ultra Edit, but I found a reference to a 64 bit
> version
> > of Notepad++ here:
> >
> https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/237/editing-600-mega-xml-file/10
>
> Odd behaviour on that page. As I scroll up and down (in Firefox), the
> URL in the address bar changes to match the URL of each post. How?

I suspect this is done using History.pushState:
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/browsers.html#the-history-interface

It allows linking directly to a specific post on the page.

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Martijn

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[Discuss] Changing TXT editor (SIGH) (1,549) - Paul Laufer - Apr 27,2016 at 21:13 [Discuss]
- [Discuss] Changing TXT editor (SIGH) (1,411) - Peter Shute - Apr 27,2016 at 23:09
  - Strange webpage behaviour (1,272) - Peter Shute - Apr 28,2016 at 00:37
    - History manipulation (1,358) - Martijn Coppoolse - Apr 28,2016 at 14:52
      - History manipulation (1,333) - Peter Shute - Apr 28,2016 at 21:25
        History manipulation (1,246) - Martijn Coppoolse - Apr 29,2016 at 07:17
- [Discuss] Changing TXT editor (SIGH) (2,160) - GoSlow2GoFast - Apr 28,2016 at 00:49
- [Discuss] Changing TXT editor (SIGH) (1,455) - Art Kocsis - Apr 28,2016 at 19:37
  - [Discuss] Changing TXT editor (SIGH) (1,287) - Paul Laufer - Apr 28,2016 at 21:19
    - [Discuss] I've always been partial to TextPad (1,250) - Doug Borg - Apr 28,2016 at 21:32
    - Notepad++ "find in files" (1,262) - Peter Shute - May 02,2016 at 03:52
      - Notepad++ "find in files" (1,183) - Peter Shute - May 02,2016 at 22:15
- [Discuss] Changing TXT editor (SIGH) (1,368) - Frances Wohlfelder - Apr 29,2016 at 10:10
  - [Discuss] Changing TXT editor (SIGH) (1,296) - Frances Wohlfelder - Apr 29,2016 at 16:10
  - [Discuss] Changing TXT editor (SIGH) (1,321) - Bernhard Steffen - Apr 29,2016 at 20:56
- Pilotedit (1,505) - Matthias Kring - Apr 29,2016 at 15:34
- [Discuss] Changing TXT editor (SIGH) (1,448) - John Leslie - May 01,2016 at 16:20
- [Discuss] UltraEdit does large files well (1,257) - Andreas Hagele - May 01,2016 at 20:32
  - [Discuss] UltraEdit does large files well (1,329) - John Leslie - May 02,2016 at 09:24
    - [Discuss] UltraEdit tabs (1,233) - Andreas Hagele - May 02,2016 at 20:46
- [Discuss] Changing TXT editor (SIGH) (1,521) - Art Kocsis - May 02,2016 at 23:49
- [Discuss] Changing TXT editor (SIGH) (1,203) - Neil Clough - May 04,2016 at 02:43
- [Discuss] Changing TXT editor (SIGH) (1,271) - Paolikkio - May 17,2016 at 16:32