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Question

I am using Ajax and hash for navigation.

Is there a way to check if the window.location.hash changed like this?

http://example.com/blah

Answer 1

A decent implementation can be found at http://code.google.com/p/reallysimplehistory/. The only (but also) problem and bug it has is: in Internet Explorer modifying the location hash manually will reset the entire history stack (this is a browser issue and it cannot be solved).

Note, Internet Explorer 8 does have support for the "hashchange" event, and since it is becoming part of HTML5 you may expect other browsers to catch up.