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<a href="/questions/4015613/good-tutorial-for-using-html5-history-api-pushstate" dir="ltr">Good tutorial for using HTML5 History API (Pushstate?) [closed]</a>
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<div class="grid--cell mb0 mt8">Closed <span title="2018-07-18 13:49:07Z" class="relativetime">2 years ago</span>.</div>
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now i am learning about History API modules of Javascript. Sorry for the stupid question but after i tried to read the information from web, i still can not have a very clear concept...
What is the advantages of this API and is it different between AJAX? How can we apply this api in the real applications?
Some website said that you can change the url without re-load the page! and from the w3c..
The history object contains the URLs visited by the user (within a browser window).
The history object is part of the window object and is accessed through the window.history property.
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AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Essentially, what AJAX does is performs tasks such as making data requests or updating parts of your webpage without reloading the entire webpage (just the parts you specified).
API stands for Application Programming Interface. APIs allow your program some sort of special information or data. In this case you are using the History API which grants you the ability to see and performs certain actions with the history (the previously visited webpages) of your browser in your current session.
A real world use for the History API would be using the History.scrollRestoration property. When a user navigates back to a previously visited webpage that is saved in the browser's history it will also scroll the webpage down the to last place the user was before leaving that webpage. That is an example of how the History API can improve the UX (User Experience).