[wp-hackers] Ignore Portions of URI

[Austin Matzko]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
> 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.

One advantage is that you can make ajaxy changes yet preserve the
back-button functionality of the browser.  Facebook uses this to good
effect when browsing a series of photos.