[whatwg] Question about pushState

[Darin Fisher]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Darin Fisher <darin at chromium.org> wrote:
> > [Apologies if this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find it in
> the
> > archives.]
> > Why does pushState only prune forward session history entries
> corresponding
> > to the same document?  I would have expected it to behave like a
> reference
> > fragment navigation, which prunes *all* forward session history entries.
> >  Reason: it seems strange when a "navigation" doesn't result in a
> disabled
> > forward button in the browser UI, so an app developer may be unsatisfied
> > using pushState in place of reference fragment navigations.
> > Thoughts?
>
> I agree. I *think* what you are suggesting is what the implementation
> that Justin Lebar has written for Firefox does.
>
> / Jonas
>


Hmm... the WebKit implementation appears to do as spec'd.

-Darin
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