Is History API broken on iOS? (Location bar doesn't update on pushState)

Question

Filing this under the either the I Can\'t Believe No One Noticed This Before or the I Must Be Missing Something categories:

It appears that if you do a simple

Answer 1

Works fine for me when using: https://github.com/browserstate/history.js - this also fixes many other cross browser bugs with the HTML5 History API.

As of v1.7, here are the bugs it solves:

• History.js solves the following browser bugs:
  • HTML5 Browsers
    • Chrome 8 sometimes does not contain the correct state data when traversing back to the initial state
    • Safari 5, Safari iOS 4 and Firefox 3 and 4 do not fire the onhashchange event when the page is loaded with a hash
    • Safari 5 and Safari iOS 4 do not fire the onpopstate event when the hash has changed unlike the other browsers
    • Safari 5 and Safari iOS 4 fail to return to the correct state once a hash is replaced by a replaceState call / bug report
    • Safari 5 and Safari iOS 4 sometimes fail to apply the state change under busy conditions / bug report
    • Google Chrome 8,9,10 and Firefox 4 prior to the RC will always fire onpopstate once the page has loaded / change recommendation
    • Safari iOS 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 have a working HTML5 History API - although the actual back buttons of the browsers do not work, therefore we treat them as HTML4 browsers
    • None of the HTML5 browsers actually utilise the title argument to the pushState and replaceState calls
  • HTML4 Browsers
    • Old browsers like MSIE 6,7 and Firefox 2 do not have a onhashchange event
    • MSIE 6 and 7 sometimes do not apply a hash even it was told to (requiring a second call to the apply function)
    • Non-Opera HTML4 browsers sometimes do not apply the hash when the hash is not urlencoded
  • All Browsers
    • State data and titles do not persist once the site is left and then returned (includes page refreshes)
    • State titles are never applied to the document.title