DAdarylteo·Feb 20, 2024
Non jQuery version (and relatively newer ) https://github.com/MoOx/pjax
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pjax
Easily enable fast Ajax navigation on any website (using pushState + xhr)
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Easily enable fast Ajax navigation on any website (using pushState + xhr)
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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3 sourceshttps://github.com/MoOx/pjax is a version that might work.
It's a reimplementation of the library without jquery and with a few extra features.
Instead of working on a single container where all the ajaxing happens, you provide it a list of IDs, and then it extracts the nodes with those IDs from the response and replaces them throughout the document. If I understood you, that's the behaviour you're looking for.
It also has a few extra hooks for animating content in and out.
It's not as widely used as the defunkt version though, and I remember needing to stop using it because of a bug where it wasn't scrolling to in-page anchors properly. But hopefully it would work for you.
Personally, I might just use the defunkt version and write a before and after hook to refocus the appropriate input. When it comes to reimplementing browser features i
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n JavaScript, there are lots of edge cases so it's nice to use widely adopted libraries.
jQuery-Pjax is used by GitHub so you know it's well tested :)
> I've never seen any added javascript to a page that went as far as generating and rendering other pages completely, that's always been a refresh.
pjax[1] does what you are describing. There are other similar libraries as well. On user navigation, it makes a XHR request to the server, and updates in place any changed DOM elements. I like this, because it progressively enhances the user experience. An application should focus on serving content quickly to the user, then improving the experience where browsers leave a gap. Notice that pjax provides the same functionality as an isomorphic javascript without inflicting upon the world server side javascript ;)
[1] https://github.com/MoOx/pjax
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