jQuery Address

The jQuery Address plugin provides powerful deep linking capabilities and allows the creation of unique virtual addresses that can point to a website section or an application state. It enables a number of important capabilities including:

Bookmarking in a browser or social website
Sending links via email or instant messenger
Finding specific content using the major search engines
Utilizing browser history and reload buttons

Usage

A basic implementation in pure JavaScript can look like this:

$.address.change(function(event) {  
    // do something depending on the event.value property, e.g.  
    // $('#content').load(event.value + '.xml');  
});  
$('a').click(function() {  
    $.address.value($(this).attr('href'));  
});

The plugin also provides a jQuery function which can be directly used in the following way:

$('a').address();

The above snippet can be extended with an additional function that processes the link value:

$('a').address(function() {  
    return $(this).attr('href').replace(/^#/, '');  
});

By default the plugin automatically adds the appropriate JavaScript event handler to every link that has a rel attribute in the following format:

<a href="/deep-link" rel="address:/deep-link">Deep link</a>

Changes

09/19/2011 - jQuery Address 1.5

Introduces feature detection where possible.
Improves event handling.
Fixes various issues.

05/04/2011 - jQuery Address 1.4

Support for jQuery 1.6.
Drops the internal de/encoding magic.
Drops the Safari 2 support.
Fixes various issues.
Updates the Express sample.

02/04/2011 - jQuery Address 1.3.2

Support for jQuery 1.5.
Issue 48: IE7 "Permission Denied" error.
Issue 47: Issues for non-Latin urls and State update to change title on click event.
Issue 40: Encoding problem in parameter().
Issue 38: Issue when form actions containing query variables.
Issue 37: Using live events for form submissions.

11/29/2010 - jQuery Address 1.3.1

Issue 26: Values should no longer be only strings.
Issue 20: Improves the encoding of special characters.
Fixed issue with state value detection.
Fixed issue with the global ajaxComplete event.

09/26/2010 - jQuery Address 1.3

Support for the HTML5 onpopstate/pushState/replaceState API.
Support for tracker function reference.
Support for document.domain in IE6/7.
Improved value encoding scheme.
New State and Express samples.
Improved jQuery UI Tabs sample.
Improved event cancellation.
GA tracker function lookup is performed only against the top window.
Fixes an issue with manual address changes in IE7.
Removes IE specific code applicable only for local testing.

07/19/2010 - jQuery Address 1.2.2

Issue 12: Fixes the opening of tab links in a new browser tab.
Issue 11: Fixes the rel attr handling for Ajax loaded links.
Issue 10: Cannot turn off Google Analytics page tracking.
Fixed lazy loading support.
Fixed form submission support in IE.
Fixed issue with the href attribute in older versions of IE.
Tabs sample improvements.

05/18/2010 - jQuery Address 1.2.1

Issue 6: Using links without a href attribute causes an error.
Issue 5: Setting parameter = 0 removes it from address.

05/05/2010 - jQuery Address 1.2

New queryString, parameter and path setters.
New autoUpdate, crawling and wrap options.
New generic bind method.
New Accordion, Crawling and Form samples.
Support for hash fragments as a part of the value.
Basic support for forms.
Improved onhashchange support.
Switched samples to HTML5.
Switched to the Closure compiler.
JSLint compatibility.
Simple test suite.
Support for jQuery 1.4.2 and jQuery UI 1.8.

12/23/2009 - jQuery Address 1.1

New internalChange and externalChange events.
New Events sample.
Improved IE support.
Frameset support.

04/28/2009 - jQuery Address 1.0

Initial release.

License

desunit/jquery-address

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