Re: [whatwg] setting location.hash property and browser reload

2009-07-25 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > HTML5 requires that there not be a reload. Setting location.hash eventually > > (if you follow the admittedly convoluted definitions) is equivalent to > > running the navigation algorithm: > > > >http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-

Re: [whatwg] setting location.hash property and browser reload

2009-07-08 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Ian Hickson wrote: HTML5 requires that there not be a reload. Setting location.hash eventually (if you follow the admittedly convoluted definitions) is equivalent to running the navigation algorithm: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#navigate ...which, in step 4, just scro

Re: [whatwg] setting location.hash property and browser reload

2009-07-08 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Peter Michaux wrote: > > When setting the location.hash property, some older browsers reloaded > the entire page. The newest versions of the major browsers doe not > reload the page when setting location.hash. This seems to be now de > facto standard behavior. Sites like Yaho

[whatwg] setting location.hash property and browser reload

2009-07-08 Thread Peter Michaux
When setting the location.hash property, some older browsers reloaded the entire page. The newest versions of the major browsers doe not reload the page when setting location.hash. This seems to be now de facto standard behavior. Sites like Yahoo Maps! depends on the page not reloading when setting