Posted by Steve on 02/23/07 04:22

"Onideus Mad Hatter" <usenet@backwater-productions.net> wrote in message
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| So with the new indexing ability of my new Backwater site a question
| keeps coming up in my mind...is there a better way?

yes, there is. anyway other than the way you do it. you inevitably get it
wrong...pick your context.

| On the Backwater site for example when you click on a nav button it's
| essentially performing a meta-refresh on the page but then adding on
| the appropriate GET variable to the URL.
|
| This is a bit annoying in that it winds up having to reload about 800K
| of data, which, even from the browser cache takes 3 to 5 seconds.
| Now, it is true that in that respect it winds up functioning like your
| average HTML/CSS/javascript based site...but part of wanting to use
| Flash (aside from the compatibility) is the increased speed in NOT
| having to needlessly reload anything from the cache.

this is web programming 101, dumbass. as for 'compatibility', you don't seem
to conceive that not all browsers support flash...much less javascript or
css. further, you never heed anyone's professional advice that you should be
accounting for this. but hell, you site is for you...no one else gives a
flying fuck.

| So the question is...is there some way to make it so that when someone
| goes to bookmark the page it'll alter the bookmarking URL or is there
| some way of dynamically altering the URL while NOT actually reloading
| the page?

oh, i'd say mind-reading would be good...that, or load all your data in your
crap-app...errr...i mean, flash-app and then the universe is in the client
world. if you've ever heard of *security*, you'd know that altering a url
cannot be a function that is reliably done client-side...even for a good
hacker. further, that altering a url does shit for you unless you access
what is on the other side of it. finally, you sure put a lot of faith in
people enabling javascript...because surely you don't plan on manipulating
it on the server-side.

it is painfully obvious that you failed to architect any of these factors
into your site...as you'd have approached it in a more efficient manner.

| So far the only viable solution I've come up with is to
| include my own little bookmarking button that when clicked would be
| able to set a dynamic bookmark...but I was kinda hoping for something
| a bit more...evolved.

i suppose one is limited to their own level of evolution in thought
capacity. hence, you are stuck with these problems.

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