Speedtracker URL structure

[mathieuhays]

Hi,

First of all, I want to thank you for this great tool.

I just noticed that the visualisation layer modify the web address using the history API.
It looks great but it breaks the ability to share the url or reload the page.

I don't know if github has an option to redirect all traffic to the index but if it doesn't it might be worth considering a different url structure.

[eduardoboucas]

Every profile has a directory with an index.html inside, so the correct URL for profile something will be http://root.url/something. This is totally fine if you use a custom domain and the site sits at the root of the domain (e.g. http://demo.speedtracker.org).

The issue here comes when the root of your dashboard is on a sub-directory (e.g. http://yourusername.github.io/speedtracker). Switching to profile something should link to http://yourusername.github.io/speedtracker/something, but it's blindly linking to /something, which means the end URL will be http://yourusername.github.io/something, which obviously isn't valid.

I don't think the solution to this is the introduction of a query parameter, as Jekyll wouldn't be able to read this. The profile selector just needs to form the URL correctly. There is a window.BASE_URL which contains the relative path to the root, which we can use to properly build the URLs.

I will close #8 as I don't think it's the right approach, and will look into fixing this asap (and coming up with a good versioning system and a way for people to update their dashboards).

Thanks for flagging this!

[mathieuhays]

makes sense :)