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30th October 2010 - Link Blog

WebKit is Dropping HTML5 "popstate" Events (via) Really nasty bug with WebKit’s pushState support, discovered by Ben Cherry from Twitter. popState events get dropped if the user navigates while an outbound network request is in progress.

Posted 30th October 2010 at 7:41 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 30th October 2010.

bugs 8 html5 84 twitter 161 webkit 28 recovered 213 pushstate 1

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