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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 hacke

by bork1 7y 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

zuppy 7y ago
you can use replaceState for that and back will work fine
- bork1 7y ago
  Oh nice; good to know that there's an easy way to get around that.
- tracker1 7y 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.
  - ludwigvan 7y ago
    He explains in the article that he couldn't do it with History API since it is throttled by the browsers.
codedokode 7y ago
Maybe browsers should go back not to previous URL, but to previous domain.