dhtmlhistory.js

This is the script which used on 10minutemail.com for temporary email.

/** 
Copyright (c) 2005, Brad Neuberg, [e-mail]
http://codinginparadise.org

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining 
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), 
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and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the 
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. 
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY 
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT 
OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR 
THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
*/

/** An object that provides DHTML history, history data, and bookmarking 
	for AJAX applications. */
window.dhtmlHistory = {
/** Initializes our DHTML history. You should
	call this after the page is finished loading. */
/** public */ initialize: function() {
	// only Internet Explorer needs to be explicitly initialized;
	// other browsers don't have its particular behaviors.
	// Basicly, IE doesn't autofill form data until the page
	// is finished loading, which means historyStorage won't
	// work until onload has been fired.
	if (this.isInternetExplorer() == false) {
		return;
	}
		
	// if this is the first time this page has loaded...
	if (historyStorage.hasKey("DhtmlHistory_pageLoaded") == false) {
		this.fireOnNewListener = false;
		this.firstLoad = true;
		historyStorage.put("DhtmlHistory_pageLoaded", true);
	}
	// else if this is a fake onload event
	else {
		this.fireOnNewListener = true;
		this.firstLoad = false;
	}
},
			
/** Adds a history change listener. Note that
	only one listener is supported at this
	time. */
/** public */ addListener: function(callback) {
	this.listener = callback;
	
	// if the page was just loaded and we
	// should not ignore it, fire an event
	// to our new listener now
	if (this.fireOnNewListener == true) {
		this.fireHistoryEvent(this.currentLocation);
		this.fireOnNewListener = false;
	}
},

/** public */ add: function(newLocation, historyData) {
	// most browsers require that we wait a certain amount of time before changing the
	// location, such as 200 milliseconds; rather than forcing external callers to use
	// window.setTimeout to account for this to prevent bugs, we internally handle this
	// detail by using a 'currentWaitTime' variable and have requests wait in line
	var self = this;
	var addImpl = function() {
		// indicate that the current wait time is now less
		if (self.currentWaitTime > 0)
			self.currentWaitTime = self.currentWaitTime - self.WAIT_TIME;
			
		// remove any leading hash symbols on newLocation
		newLocation = self.removeHash(newLocation);
		
		// IE has a strange bug; if the newLocation
		// is the same as _any_ preexisting id in the
		// document, then the history action gets recorded
		// twice; throw a programmer exception if there is
		// an element with this ID
		var idCheck = document.getElementById(newLocation);
		if (idCheck != undefined || idCheck != null) {
			var message = 
			"Exception: History locations can not have "
			+ "the same value as _any_ id's "
			+ "that might be in the document, "
			+ "due to a bug in Internet "
			+ "Explorer; please ask the "
			+ "developer to choose a history "
			+ "location that does not match "
			+ "any HTML id's in this "
			+ "document. The following ID "
			+ "is already taken and can not "
			+ "be a location: " 
			+ newLocation;
			
			throw message; 
		}
		
		// store the history data into history storage
		historyStorage.put(newLocation, historyData);
		
		// indicate to the browser to ignore this upcomming 
		// location change
		self.ignoreLocationChange = true;
 
		// indicate to IE that this is an atomic location change
		// block
		this.ieAtomicLocationChange = true;
				
		// save this as our current location
		self.currentLocation = newLocation;
		
		// change the browser location
		window.location.hash = newLocation;
		
		// change the hidden iframe's location if on IE
		if (self.isInternetExplorer())
			self.iframe.src = "blank.html?" + newLocation;
			
		// end of atomic location change block
		// for IE
		this.ieAtomicLocationChange = false;
	};

	// now execute this add request after waiting a certain amount of time, so as to
	// queue up requests
	window.setTimeout(addImpl, this.currentWaitTime);

	// indicate that the next request will have to wait for awhile
	this.currentWaitTime = this.currentWaitTime + this.WAIT_TIME;
},

/** public */ isFirstLoad: function() {
	if (this.firstLoad == true) {
		return true;
	}
	else {
		return false;
	}
},

/** public */ isInternational: function() {
	return false;
},

/** public */ getVersion: function() {
	return "0.05";
},

/** Gets the current hash value that is in the browser's
	location bar, removing leading # symbols if they are present. */
/** public */ getCurrentLocation: function() {
	var currentLocation = this.removeHash(window.location.hash);
		
	return currentLocation;
},





/** Our current hash location, without the "#" symbol. */
/** private */ currentLocation: null,

/** Our history change listener. */
/** private */ listener: null,

/** A hidden IFrame we use in Internet Explorer to detect history
	changes. */
/** private */ iframe: null,

/** Indicates to the browser whether to ignore location changes. */
/** private */ ignoreLocationChange: null,
 
/** The amount of time in milliseconds that we should wait between add requests. 
	Firefox is okay with 200 ms, but Internet Explorer needs 400. */
/** private */ WAIT_TIME: 200,

/** The amount of time in milliseconds an add request has to wait in line before being
	run on a window.setTimeout. */
/** private */ currentWaitTime: 0,

/** A flag that indicates that we should fire a history change event
	when we are ready, i.e. after we are initialized and
	we have a history change listener. This is needed due to 
	an edge case in browsers other than Internet Explorer; if
	you leave a page entirely then return, we must fire this
	as a history change event. Unfortunately, we have lost
	all references to listeners from earlier, because JavaScript
	clears out. */
/** private */ fireOnNewListener: null,

/** A variable that indicates whether this is the first time
	this page has been loaded. If you go to a web page, leave
	it for another one, and then return, the page's onload
	listener fires again. We need a way to differentiate
	between the first page load and subsequent ones.
	This variable works hand in hand with the pageLoaded
	variable we store into historyStorage.*/
/** private */ firstLoad: null,

/** A variable to handle an important edge case in Internet
	Explorer. In IE, if a user manually types an address into
	their browser's location bar, we must intercept this by
	continiously checking the location bar with an timer 
	interval. However, if we manually change the location
	bar ourselves programmatically, when using our hidden
	iframe, we need to ignore these changes. Unfortunately,
	these changes are not atomic, so we surround them with
	the variable 'ieAtomicLocationChange', that if true,
	means we are programmatically setting the location and
	should ignore this atomic chunked change. */
/** private */ ieAtomicLocationChange: null, 

/** Creates the DHTML history infrastructure. */
/** private */ create: function() {
	// get our initial location
	var initialHash = this.getCurrentLocation();
	
	// save this as our current location
	this.currentLocation = initialHash;
	
	// write out a hidden iframe for IE and
	// set the amount of time to wait between add() requests
	if (this.isInternetExplorer()) {
		document.write("<iframe style='border: 0px; width: 1px; "
							+ "height: 1px; position: absolute; bottom: 0px; "
							+ "right: 0px; visibility: visible;' "
							+ "name='DhtmlHistoryFrame' id='DhtmlHistoryFrame' "
							+ "src='blank.html?" + initialHash + "'>"
							+ "</iframe>");
		// wait 400 milliseconds between history
		// updates on IE, versus 200 on Firefox
		this.WAIT_TIME = 400;
	}
	
	// add an unload listener for the page; this is
	// needed for Firefox 1.5+ because this browser caches all
	// dynamic updates to the page, which can break some of our 
	// logic related to testing whether this is the first instance
	// a page has loaded or whether it is being pulled from the cache
	var self = this;
	window.onunload = function() {
		self.firstLoad = null;
	};
	
	// determine if this is our first page load;
	// for Internet Explorer, we do this in 
	// this.iframeLoaded(), which is fired on
	// page load. We do it there because
	// we have no historyStorage at this point
	// in IE, which only exists after the page
	// is finished loading for that browser
	if (this.isInternetExplorer() == false) {
		if (historyStorage.hasKey("DhtmlHistory_pageLoaded") == false) {
			this.ignoreLocationChange = true;
			this.firstLoad = true;
			historyStorage.put("DhtmlHistory_pageLoaded", true);
		}
		else {
			// indicate that we want to pay attention
			// to this location change
			this.ignoreLocationChange = false;
			// For browser's other than IE, fire
			// a history change event; on IE,
			// the event will be thrown automatically
			// when it's hidden iframe reloads
			// on page load.
			// Unfortunately, we don't have any 
			// listeners yet; indicate that we want
			// to fire an event when a listener
			// is added.
			this.fireOnNewListener = true;
		}
	}
	else { // Internet Explorer
		// the iframe will get loaded on page
		// load, and we want to ignore this fact
		this.ignoreLocationChange = true;
	}
	
	if (this.isInternetExplorer()) {
			this.iframe = document.getElementById("DhtmlHistoryFrame");
	} 

	// other browsers can use a location handler that checks
	// at regular intervals as their primary mechanism;
	// we use it for Internet Explorer as well to handle
	// an important edge case; see checkLocation() for
	// details
	var self = this;
	var locationHandler = function() {
		self.checkLocation();
	};
	setInterval(locationHandler, 100);
},

/** Notify the listener of new history changes. */
/** private */ fireHistoryEvent: function(newHash) {
	// extract the value from our history storage for
	// this hash
	var historyData = historyStorage.get(newHash);

	// call our listener