User visible urls

[Phil McDonnell]

I like the concept of GWT being a webapp, but users still want bookmark-able urls in many situations.  Does anyone have a pointer for best ways to expose urls that can bookmark somewhere deep in a gwt app?

For instance, a shopping site might have the url "my-gwt-app.com/products/stuffed-bunny" so that a user can return to their favorite stuffed bunny product.  Any idea how I can implement this?

Thanks,

Phil

[Raphael André Bauer]

One option surely is to use hashbang urls.
my-gwt-app.com/#!/products/stuffed-bunny for instance.

Similar to what twitter does: twitter.com/#!/username

The idea would be to let GWT manage the whole frontend application.
Both Google and Bing support hashtag crawling
(http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started.html).

Btw - have a look at GWTP (http://code.google.com/p/gwt-platform/) -
an alternative implementation of the MVP pattern. I found it easier to
use and customize than GWT's Activities and GWT's PlaceMapper. But
it's up to you.

Best,

Raphael

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[Thomas Broyer]

History is made for that.

If you want to use HTML5's pushState/popstate, that should be possible using deferred-binding (to replace the underlying implementation using onhashchange with one using pushState).

If you're using Places (which I strongly recommend), the default Historian uses History, but you can easily make one that uses HTML5's pushState/onpopstate (I did just that, works very well; I didn't implement fallback to on hashchange though). Note that it's easier to make an HTML5 Historian than to make History use HTML5.

[Phil McDonnell]

Looks great!  Thanks!

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[Carlos Aguayo]

Hi Thomas, could you share the one that you wrote to use pushState? Thanks!

[Thomas Broyer]

On Tuesday, February 21, 2012 6:04:55 PM UTC+1, Carlos Aguayo wrote:

Hi Thomas, could you share the one that you wrote to use pushState? Thanks!

Here's a skeleton implementation: https://gist.github.com/1883821

[Carlos Aguayo]

works like a sharm! thanks buddy!

[Adolfo Panizo Touzon]

Hi all,

In the next weeks I'm going to start a new app, and I am really interested in this question.

The solution that @Thomas has proposed is really interested. But I don't know exactly how it works.

The question is, could you provide me an simple simple example? Or link?

Thank you,

Adolfo.

2012/2/27 Carlos Aguayo <carlos...@gmail.com>

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[Carlos Aguayo]

Hi, I created an example and published an example based on Thomas' example:

http://carlosaguayo.posterous.com/html5-history-in-gwt

On Tuesday, February 28, 2012 10:31:43 AM UTC-5, apanizo wrote:

Hi all,

In the next weeks I'm going to start a new app, and I am really interested in this question.

The solution that @Thomas has proposed is really interested. But I don't know exactly how it works.

The question is, could you provide me an simple simple example? Or link?

Thank you,

Adolfo.

2012/2/27 Carlos Aguayo <carlos...@gmail.com>

works like a sharm! thanks buddy!

On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 5:08:23 AM UTC-5, Thomas Broyer wrote:

On Tuesday, February 21, 2012 6:04:55 PM UTC+1, Carlos Aguayo wrote:

Hi Thomas, could you share the one that you wrote to use pushState? Thanks!

Here's a skeleton implementation: https://gist.github.com/1883821

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