[wp-hackers] Ignore Portions of URI

[Otto]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Dougal Campbell <dougal at gunters.org> wrote:
> But it is a good technique for some situations. For example, play around
> with Addictomatic:
>
>  http://addictomatic.com/
>
> You can do a search, then rearrange or hide various news sources. Your view
> state is stored in the hash portion of the URL, which makes it bookmarkable,
> without cookies. So you can send the bookmark to other users, and they get
> the same search view that you set up. For example:
>
>  http://addictomatic.com/topic/wordpress#kmun.dwqo.tblh

How is that a substantial improvement over, say,
http://addictomatic.com/topic/wordpress?status=kmun.dwqo.tblh ?

I just don't see how getting hash info from the URL and sending it via
JS is any better than a GET URL.

-Otto