jquery-address

I'm not sure if this announcement changes anything. The bottom line is to make apps for the end user. Google is simply saying that those best practices are now crawlable in a way that is very mature. The same rules still apply. A simple guide can be found here: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/. Although I suspect it needs to be updated since its from 2012. If you create an application, make sure it alters the URL when applicable. For simple apps, the following repos will be useful: The old way, that still works: https://github.com/asual/jquery-address The better way, preferred: https://github.com/browserstate/history.js or https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax.... not sure which is better to be honest. Feel free to chime in.

If the solution only covers part of what you need, then that is indeed a problem that should be fixed ... by covering all of what you need. On the other hand, I'll leave it up to your judgement whether the lines in the address plugin are necessary. You can compare implementations here: https://github.com/asual/jquery-address/blob/master/src/jque... http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/docs/backbone.html#... If 90% of Backbone apps end up using Controllers, it's better to include a concise implementation than a heavy dependency, I think.