It's probably using IUI (the iPhone UI CSS/JS that Joe Hewitt created, now being maintained at http://code.google.com/p/iui/) which allows you to request the page to be loaded via AJAX based on how you setup the link. <a href="foo.php">this will load via AJAX</a> <a href="foo.php" target="_self">this will load like a normal page link</a> This is how I *believe* it works, I just implemented IUI partially on a site at work a few days ago and the final thing for me to work out the kinks is whether or not to load certain pages using the AJAX method (and show the cute little "loading" circle thing) or reload the entire page. Remember it's all just Javascript trickery with CSS that works great on Safari browsers (and works almost identical actually now in Firefox...) It's very easy to implement, I had some initial confusion too how it routes the requests but I think I figured it out there ^^ On 1/7/08, Steve Finkelstein <sf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Probably the most impressive application I've run into for the iPhone has to > be Facebook's implementation. I'm looking for ways to improve my application > to be as responsive as theirs. Unfortunately it has quite a way to go. Does > anyone know how this form of 'routing' works? > > For instance the home page for iphone.facebook.com looks something like: > > http://iphone.facebook.com/#home.php > > then if you click on profile it'll route you to something that looks like > > http://iphone.facebook.com/#profile.php?id=XXXX > > Is this actually 'leaving' the page and requesting profile.php? I'm > completely confused with the hash mark in front of the PHP file and the > mechanics behind this style. It seems to be extremely well implemented > though and I'd like to learn more about it. I'm having a ton of issues with > my application now where Ajax calls randomly do not get sent to the server. > I haven't figured out why, maybe mobile safari is caching request URLs. But > I'm looking to rebuild parts of the architecture to get it to work, and > would love to understand the mechanism being used above. > > Does anyone know what is going on with the browser and HTTP requests with > the methodology listed above? Any further reading? > > Thanks! > > - sf > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
