On: PushState + ajax = pjax

[drivebyacct2]

It shocks me that people still do Ajax without this technique (though not necessarily this library obviously).

GitHub is the only mainstream site I've seen handle Ajax "properly".

[garindra → drivebyacct2]

You mean doing Ajax without changing the hash and all that the related crufts?

I guess that's because most browsers used by people out there today do not have support for direct url path changing without causing a reload. It's only been possible since the introduction of the HTML5 History API, which solved that very problem. Unfortunately, it's only supported by the newer browsers.