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http://www.enterbet.com

Ajax are all the rage at the moment one of the most frequent criticisms of Ajax is the lack of the browsers back and forward history functions when using Ajax powered applications. There have been a few attempts at fixing this problem with variable degrees of success. It has to be stated though that no technique I investigated fitted the needs of this site. Part of the difficulty here is that this site is essentially a multi-application site, where multiple blog applications are appearing to the client as one application.
To gain an appreciation of how difficult storing history is I suggest you go over to... where some states are stored in history and others not. For example if I click on the entertainment category and then click on the sub category fashion a history event is recorded. If I click on the browser back button then it takes me back to the start page. So far so good.
However if I click on the entertainment category and then click on the sub category fashion and then additionally click on another category let’s say business and then fast company then it takes me back to the front page again, not the page I was previously viewing. This is not necessarily a criticism of Microsoft as many Web 2.0 applications fail in this same manner and as I stated before every history solution I have seen certainly doesn’t work on this site.