The holy grail of website usability: Back Button, Bookmarking, Live Url. You really can’t get away with just two. Traditional HTML browsing has all three naturally and never seems to suffer from usability-envy. Flash users do. We’ve been struggling with those three little bits since FutureSplash. So what to do?

 

So, enter Hypergeneric Flash History — graciously powered by unFocus’s History Keeper (which i might add is a genius bit ofJavaScript). I’ve built a sitelet that showcases the Hypergeneric Flash History’s stuff. You can download the source files there too, but have added a link here for good measure. Enjoy.

 

Oh, and do give a shout-out to unFocus for me. It’s what started all this. And if you download the source and use it, or can help with some of the ongoing outstanding issues, do let me know.