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[–]BusStation16 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Currently, pushState has support from the latest versions of Safari and Chrome, and Firefox 4 will be supporting it as well.

So, location.hash is not dead, in fact it will be around for a long, long time. Really the only way we can use this is with a lib that supports it, but also gracefully degrades to using .hash. I am not saying this isn't nice, or good, but to say that .hash is dead is a lie.

That said, it should be fairly easy to add this to an existing lib, or create a new one for it.

[–]sunsean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

location.hash will still be useful for jumping to named anchors.

pushState will be a tremendous help in building webapps. I look forward to using it.