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7th November 2008 - Link Blog

jQuery history plugin. I used this plugin to add back button support to a small Ajax app today, with great results. I tried it a while ago and it didn’t work in Safari, but someone has updated it since and now it works perfectly.

Posted 7th November 2008 at 5:32 pm

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