Or breaking the back button

People just need to know when to use replaceState instead of pushState.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History/rep...

pushState maybe sometimes used but replaceState should never be used.

Seriously, many times I was on a website where scrawling introduce you to new article but it also replace the URL oh, now I wanted to go back to the original article because I wanted to share with you but I couldn't. at least with a push State I could retrace my steps and not rely on the developer guessing where I might have been going.

Be nice if there was a DNS that blackholes websites that break the back button.

OH yeah! A DNS that would crawl the website, launch a VM with a couple browsers to see if the backbutton is broken.

breaking the back button is an absolute sin. What could be the possible use case for anyone to break the back button this way?

Sorry guys, I didn't expect so much interest from the audience. I've updated the website, hope it's better now :)

Hey tsomctl, sorry for the inconvenience. We've updated the website. Removed the autoplay. I hope it works better now.

Thank god for iOS safari. Quiet as a mouse.