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Last night Steven Sinofsky and Julie Larson-Green previewed the touch user experience for Windows 8 at the D9 conference in California. As usual, Walt asked plenty of tough questions which you can watch here, but today I just want to talk about a couple of things I noticed.
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Marty McFly once said: “Yeah, well, history is gonna change”, and if you’re using one of the latest Gecko 2 based web browsers, such as Firefox 4, Thunderbird 3.3 or SeaMonkey 2.1, then this just might be the case for you.

Ignoring the fact I wanted to get a Back to the Future quote on the blog, it seems that the new JavaScript methods that these browsers will support; will allow developers to make changes to the URL bar without refreshing the browsers or directing the user to the new URL. It also means that you could ‘inject’ browser history to the viewer, but we are sure there’s been some thought around the security of this.

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