Ask HN: Why clicking on favorite takes you to favorites page?

Re:Ask HN: Why clicking on favorite takes you to favorites p... by metadat on Friday October 14, 2022 @09:48PM (#33210842)

It's because HN uses very little Javascript. So this is the way it works, a simple get request to an endpoint.

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Re:Ask HN: Why clicking on favorite takes you to favorites p... by Minor49er on Friday October 14, 2022 @10:07PM (#33210936)

I'm not on a computer to test this, but I wonder if it would be possible with the href attribute set to a fragment (#) and the ping attribute set to the URL where a favorite gets saved. I'm not sure if ping works without navigating to another page or not

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Re:Ask HN: Why clicking on favorite takes you to favorites p... by metadat on Friday October 14, 2022 @10:10PM (#33210959)

I don't think the #-and-after portion gets submitted to the server. IIRC it's reserved exclusively for client-side use.

When in doubt I suggest simply emailing our moderator, TheDang: [email protected]. They are the ultimate arbiter of these matters.

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Re:Ask HN: Why clicking on favorite takes you to favorites p... by Minor49er on Sunday October 16, 2022 @04:54AM (#33222194)

No, the fragment wouldn't get sent to the server at all. The ping part would though

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Re:Ask HN: Why clicking on favorite takes you to favorites p... by gus_massa on Friday October 14, 2022 @11:58PM (#33211601)

My guess is it sends you to the favorite page so you are sure it has been saved there. I think it can be implemented differently, like the upvotes that are counted without a page change.

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Re:Ask HN: Why clicking on favorite takes you to favorites p... by alxmng on Saturday October 15, 2022 @06:43AM (#33213572)

The endpoint could redirect back to the same page.

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