> TBF, having the address bar to dynamically reflect whatever the user currently is seeing on screen is really a relatively "new" idea, so I typically don't expect that. It would be great if they have it, of course.
"Relatively" and "new" being very... Relative in this case :) I remember writing client-side web applications (SPAs before they were called SPAs) in 2008/2009 where we did this because tying loading resources based on the URL (compared to the opposite of loading a resource then manipulating the URL) was so obvious, wouldn't surprise me if the practice was older than that as well.
In terms of how fast the web moves forward, I'd say it's not very "new", but in terms of anything else, yeah I guess it is relatively new :)
"Relatively" and "new" being very... Relative in this case :) I remember writing client-side web applications (SPAs before they were called SPAs) in 2008/2009 where we did this because tying loading resources based on the URL (compared to the opposite of loading a resource then manipulating the URL) was so obvious, wouldn't surprise me if the practice was older than that as well.
In terms of how fast the web moves forward, I'd say it's not very "new", but in terms of anything else, yeah I guess it is relatively new :)