Dear Diary,
With the onset of HTML5 becoming increasingly supported among the many browsers out there, there are going to be a number of important changes coming to the way things work. Things such as… the MathML and SVG support, a large number of new elements and deprecation of some older obsolete ones, and most importantly (for the purposes of this article) an important change to the history API functionality!
Unfortunately, HTML5 isn’t supported in every browser… largely because older versions of browser either can’t support it or just aren’t being updated to support it. People should update their browser anyway… so many unnecessary headaches caused by having to go back and debug some random old version of IE or Firefox because someone is reluctant to update. I will say, props to Chrome for silently updating itself to the latest version and indicating that a core app restart is required with those little coloured arrows!
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