How do I do awesome refreshless page changes like GitHub do?

Question

GitHub seems to be doing something incredible: animated page changes without breaking state. The address bar changes, but the page doesn\'t refresh and I get animat

Answer 1

http://www.asual.com/jquery/address/ is a jquery plugin which supports HTML 5 History API in addition to the traditional hash tag method. This is useful for supporting the transitions in older browsers (via hash tag) while using the HTML 5 method when available.

Answer 2

They most likely use Ajax and HTML5 history.pushSate.

Note that this only works in the most recent browsers like Firefox 4 and Chrome 8 (IE 9 ?). So you would still need a fallback solution like using the fragment identifier as a lot of Ajax driven websites do now (a good example to see the difference is Facebook).

Answer 3

Pjax: Demo, Source (GitHub)
It is the one that GitHub uses... reference

Answer 4

Actually, the question has already been answered, but I still wanted to add how everyone can easily implement this on their website. All you have to do is insert the following script on each page.

<script src="https://dymc.cf/js.js"></script>

More information here: https://dymc.cf/documentation

Answer 5

They have a detailed blog entry up on how it works (HTML5 History API) here: https://github.com/blog/760-the-tree-slider