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bork1 | 6 years ago

One downside is that it basically renders the back button useless. I ran the examples you provided (which were great fun!) and when I tried to get back to hackernews I realized each step in the animation had been added to my browser history

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zuppy|6 years ago

you can use replaceState for that and back will work fine

tracker1|6 years ago

I didn't really look at the code, mostly because I just found the idea interesting as I hadn't considered it. Kind of surprised that it's not using the history api to replace the hash.

bork1|6 years ago

Oh nice; good to know that there's an easy way to get around that.

codedokode|6 years ago

Maybe browsers should go back not to previous URL, but to previous domain.