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Dark chocolate. Old things revisited.

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Hello there!

If you have seen earlier designs of my website, You would have noticed that I recently moved on to a blog format. Just before it, I had a simple but a milestone website which I would now refer to as Dark Chocolate. This website was special because of many reasons. Let me list some of the features here…

  • Leverage use of Javascript & AJAX while supporting older browsers through same interface. The website uses AJAX to load page contents and caches the contents so you will load any page just once! If for some reason, no javascript is not available, You are NOT redirected to some other webpage. Instead, you can just click on the same links to navigate to some other pages. For a normal user: If javascript is available, you get fast loads and cached contents and otherwise, you browse normally.
  • The Even if you use javascript, You get to copy past any link and get the same page in other browser. Let me explain it in a bit more detail… Normally, when a website uses javascript, the history gets broken and you cant get the same page if you copy and paste the link in a different window. In dark Chocolate, each of the page has a unique page url which enables the user to just use the link as it is…

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Have a look at it! and tell me how it was…