Hi folks, I have the classic ajax history/back button problem - with a twist. :-) I'm developing a simple order form using Rails and jQuery.
On the top of the page there's a cart and right below it a search form for products. When the user start to type in the search box results are presented on the fly using ajax. When the user clicks on the item he/she wants it's added to the shopping cart with ajax. Now to my problem(s). If the user, after leaving the page, hits the back button he/she is presented with an empty cart - because I updated it with ajax before. Of course a browser refresh reveals the cart - because there's a new request to the web server which renders it. Thats the first problem, the second one regards the product search. If the user performed a search before leaving the page the search results are gone - because they where displayed with the help of ajax. >From my Google searches I have found these plugins: * History/Remote * jquery.history.js * jQuery Address Maybe one of these solves the search problem? (if I add the search query as a hash to the url). But it doesn't solve the empty cart problem. My gut feeling tells me that these plugins are more for history when you have ajax style navigation - thats not really my case. Please correct me if I'm wrong. :-) What would be your approach in this situation? Thanks in advance. Cheers Sven Dahlstrand
