jQuery History Plugin

Question

There are a few different jQuery history plugins out there is one better than any of the others...

I'm trying to decide which one to go with, any thoughts or any others to try:

• http://www.balupton.com/projects/jquery-history
• http://tkyk.github.com/jquery-history-plugin
• http://plugins.jquery.com/project/history

Answer 1

I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to do, but I'm assuming you want to use hash tags to control page loads like Twitter and Facebook.

If that's the case check out this post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/116446/what-is-the-best-back-button-jquery-plugin

Edit:

Here's what was suggested on that post:

• Asual: http://www.asual.com/jquery/address/
• jQuery BBQ: http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-bbq-plugin/
• History: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/history
• jQuery hashchange: http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-hashchange-plugin/
• ReallySimpleHistory: http://code.google.com/p/reallysimplehistory/

Personally, I'd suggest going with Ben Alman's jQuery BBQ as it is cross-browser and very easy to use. Basically:

$(window).bind('hashchange', function(e) {
    // Get the hash (fragment) as a string, with any leading # removed. Note that
    // in jQuery 1.4, you should use e.fragment instead of $.param.fragment().
    var url = $.param.fragment();
});

Source: http://benalman.com/code/projects/jquery-bbq/examples/fragment-basic/

Another popular one is Sammy.js (http://code.quirkey.com/sammy/) this is actually what Twitter uses.

• Christian